Programmers have real world constraints

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9/27/10 12:15:28 PM

Programmers have real world constraints

Processor budgets, memory budgets, etc.

Try building a huge dynamic Javascript front-end without controlling the client machine and you'll see what I mean.

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-scott
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Post #333,230

9/27/10 12:32:02 PM

9/27/10 12:36:51 PM

Sometimes

As I pointed out above, not all programs or programmers have the freedom I am describing, but some do, some of the time. And a few have it almost all the time. If I walk into a job and they ask me to write a program that performs a task, if the compute power isn't available then it will have to be paid for, in support of my decision process.

That will go through some type of review, but what other individual can say that my particular design is wrong, won't work, and be able to prove it beforehand? Good luck on that. They brought be in specifically because I know how to do that type of stuff, and they don't.

And once I have my baseline environment, I'm in charge of all aspects. The subset of systems I work on don't include any browser specific code, and we have as little front end java script as possible.

In my world, if a new server is required, it is in support of a specific revenue stream, so the cost is not a constraint. We love to buy more equipment to make more money. Your real world constraints are not my real world constraints, and constraints vary project by project.

Not do all programmers have the freedom I'm describing. Some do, occasionally.

So the question is: Does anyone else?

And if not, is there any other that is even close, at least for analogy purposes?

Edited by crazy Sept. 27, 2010, 12:35:40 PM EDT

Edited by crazy Sept. 27, 2010, 12:36:51 PM EDT

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What profession invents their reality? - (crazy) - (31) - Sept. 27, 2010, 11:30:52 AM EDT

artist, religious figure, politician -NT - (boxley) - (10) - Sept. 27, 2010, 11:32:47 AM EDT

I thought about artist - (crazy) - (5) - Sept. 27, 2010, 01:48:53 PM EDT

Economists -NT - (drook) - (4) - Sept. 27, 2010, 11:58:17 AM EDT

If I got to invent my reality - (beepster) - Sept. 27, 2010, 12:05:09 PM EDT

So basically the answer is no one? -NT - (crazy) - (2) - Sept. 27, 2010, 12:07:15 PM EDT

Judges - (scoenye) - (1) - Oct. 2, 2010, 10:54:22 AM EDT

Judges win on straight power - (crazy) - Oct. 2, 2010, 11:57:56 AM EDT

engineers -NT - (beepster) - (3) - Sept. 27, 2010, 11:54:55 AM EDT

Somewhat - (crazy) - (2) - Sept. 27, 2010, 12:06:54 PM EDT

Programmers have real world constraints - (malraux) - (1) - Sept. 27, 2010, 12:15:28 PM EDT

Sometimes - (crazy) - Sept. 27, 2010, 12:36:51 PM EDT

BTW, I've been doing some gardening - (crazy) - Sept. 27, 2010, 01:04:37 PM EDT

All creative work does to some degree - (jay) - (3) - Sept. 27, 2010, 02:21:51 PM EDT

You pretty much covered it - (crazy) - (2) - Sept. 27, 2010, 04:37:48 PM EDT

Re: You pretty much covered it - (jay) - (1) - Sept. 27, 2010, 09:55:13 PM EDT

Specialty divison doesn't work the same in programming - (crazy) - Sept. 29, 2010, 05:29:20 AM EDT

Non-programmer responds. - (Ashton) - (3) - Sept. 30, 2010, 01:29:26 AM EDT

You've read far more into that than I was thinking - (crazy) - (2) - Oct. 1, 2010, 06:43:16 AM EDT

Fair enough.. even agree: - (Ashton) - (1) - Oct. 2, 2010, 04:49:46 AM EDT

100% - (crazy) - Oct. 2, 2010, 12:06:22 PM EDT

How I became a tech writer - (mhuber) - (10) - Sept. 30, 2010, 04:41:20 AM EDT

I know you didn't mean it but - (Silverlock) - (3) - Oct. 1, 2010, 06:43:53 AM EDT

Not sure I follow - (mhuber) - (2) - Oct. 2, 2010, 12:00:18 AM EDT

Check the word before "mental health facility". :-D -NT - (Another Scott) - (1) - Oct. 2, 2010, 12:05:13 AM EDT

DOH! - (mhuber) - Oct. 2, 2010, 12:22:54 AM EDT

Yeah, it's a balance - (crazy) - (5) - Oct. 1, 2010, 07:06:23 AM EDT

That may be the most lucid explanation yet seen re. - (Ashton) - (4) - Oct. 2, 2010, 05:41:12 AM EDT

mine sweepers, howsabout aircraft carriers? -NT - (boxley) - Oct. 2, 2010, 08:44:58 AM EDT

oh, I meant it - (crazy) - (2) - Oct. 2, 2010, 12:16:54 PM EDT

..Waiting for other shoe to drop - (Ashton) - (1) - Oct. 3, 2010, 02:18:09 AM EDT

I saw corp presentations a couple of days ago - (crazy) - Oct. 3, 2010, 06:52:18 AM EDT

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