Guys - while the business problem goes unsolved the squabbling over syntax continues.
Programming languages allow patterns of knowledge to be documented and automated so the debate if C++ or Java or C# it "better" seems a bit well...Slash bloody dot.
What you have stated is not a frustration with technology but one with noise. This noise unfortunately is propagated by sites like Slashdot.
After 12 years in IT you have an advantage. An advantage to identify patterns (hardware and software). It is unfortunate that technology is often seen as the ends not the means to solving problems as so many of Slashdot's subscribers may wish to think.
A lot of technology today is simply rehashed ideas from long ago. This is how tech firms make money by incremental updates that serve no real new benefit and it is the so called tech heads (robots) that get a kick out of it and are subservient to it.
If you treat your job as one to identify these patterns, improve upon them, learn from interacting with other people I believe it will cease to become a bore.
P.S. I am a programmer that believes in humans not technology.
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Guys - while the business problem goes unsolved the squabbling over syntax continues. Programming languages allow patterns of knowledge to be documented and automated so the debate if C++ or Java or C# it "better" seems a bit well...Slash bloody dot.
What you have stated is not a frustration with technology but one with noise. This noise unfortunately is propagated by sites like Slashdot. After 12 years in IT you have an advantage. An advantage to identify patterns (hardware and software). It is unfortunate that technology is often seen as the ends not the means to solving problems as so many of Slashdot's subscribers may wish to think. A lot of technology today is simply rehashed ideas from long ago. This is how tech firms make money by incremental updates that serve no real new benefit and it is the so called tech heads (robots) that get a kick out of it and are subservient to it. If you treat your job as one to identify these patterns, improve upon them, learn from interacting with other people I believe it will cease to become a bore. P.S. I am a programmer that believes in humans not technology.