Great article, IMO
“When I use your product, I’m trusting you. “
That’s where you are messing up. You trust the product to work to YOUR standards rather than just accepting the product as is.
When I write a program, 50% of the code comes from me guessing what you want because you don’t know what you want.
There is software that demands perfection from the get-go. Aerospace, automobiles, certain military applications. We are also learning that true security now has to be built in the from the ground up.
// I do not belong. My values are not valued. My thinking is strange and foreign. My world view has no place here. It is not that I am better, it is that I am different, and my difference feels incompatible with yours, dear tech. So I will mark my corner, a small plot of land and stand firmly here, trying to understand you and reconcile these conflicting differences. //
Substitute “women” for “tech” and that about sums up how I feel about interacting with modern women in this feminist-infested culture. Its why I’m going MGTOW and ultimately off the grid.
“I am not solution-oriented. I don’t see a problem and get giddy at the idea of solving it, patching it up and sending it on its merry way.”
Then you’re not an engineer, so stop pretending to be one.
Go be what you are. Go manage engineers, or design user experiences, or paint or whatever fulfills you.
But realize that the core of tech is solving problems and building things.
Don’t be what you’re not.
I have no clue what the bottom line was in this article- She's apparently a girl, so can't understand how men think. I think that's the gist of it.
And apparently this sudden flash of the obvious did not lend her to a greater thinking or understanding of gender roles and why men were the hunters and why women took care of the family ang ate bon bons while watching :the view” (just kidding about those last to DO NOT spam me!Pleeeeeeeeeeease)
I love writing software. I DO get giddy when they call me to fix a problem- I am ecstatic when I solve it and prous when they look upon me as the great code warrior who hunts down bugs and seves them up for lunch.
She should be a counselor or therapist.
I fail to see your point about the need to address people like her to “Make American Tech Great Again.”
TLDR
Having hired hundreds of programmers over the years and outsourced as well.....
I’ve found that Asian programmers lack imagination and are generally sloppy in their code......However, they are quick and cheap.....
The best way for the US to stay competitive, is through fostering computer skills at a very young age....
My youngest daughter has been programming since she was 7 years old and now 10, is entering a robotics competition this December....
Without a strong basis in maths and hard sciences, our kids won’t be able to compete.....
If we want to make American tech great again, we need to teach engineers how to compose valid requirements. The industry is rife with people trying to solve all problems at once, rather than finding elegant solutions to problems that matter to their customers.
Consider that the icon-driven GUIs of today are hampering “power users” who balance use of the GUI with keyboard shortcuts.
She is not the first to feel this way.
She should read Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance.
These feelings are as old as Western civilization.
Listen, turn and burn has been the name of the game in software development for a very long time. One does not have the luxury of dwelling on "deep" unless one is an architect, which she is clearly not. This person is a wannabe code monkey, and her competition lives not in Sunnyvale, but in Bangalore, where they are working 14 hours a day, Pacific time. She is one of the lost, and this article is the beginning of her realization.
“So I choke down my values and discomfort and attempt a push of my own, amid the internal screams that this is wrong and irresponsible and how dare I. I don’t get very far. My feeble, half-hearted steps cannot compete with your bold, proud strides. So I cower back to my corner with my broken brain and peep at your success through the leaves.
I do not belong. My values are not valued. My thinking is strange and foreign. My world view has no place here. It is not that I am better, it is that I am different, and my difference feels incompatible with yours, dear tech. So I will mark my corner, a small plot of land and stand firmly here, trying to understand you and reconcile these conflicting differences.”
That one seriously needs to get into another field of business.
Jeeez, what a whiny, cheese-laden soul, who needs to be put on suicide watch.
Get all the knives and scissors out of that house.
This is a dumb essay and this woman is not a computer scientist—end of story.
I can sum up the entire blog article in a single sentence: I don’t belong in this job because my standards are too high.
tl;dr
What people fail to realize is that 99% of all computer programmers are not engineers. They have little, if any, math or scientific training. They only code until something appears to work; not that it works well, it just gives the right answer sometimes, at least on their box.
Few programmers even know how a computer works. They have no formal education, they just taught themselves a computer programming language, something any 12 year old can do.
What’s worse: 99% of all managers of those computer programmers have no computer programming experience. They have things like a PMP or an MBA or just look good in a skirt (no exaggeration).
Saw a good book on the shelf.the.other day:
“F*ck Feelings”.
meh
It’s software. I loved the hardware I developed and built
I think she is close to getting it but ultimately misses the mark. She does not explore the ability to honestly evaluate exactly where you are and what you have in order to determine whether you need to improve or not. Then her comments on being accurate when she worked for the media is a joke.