So, once again we go to Paul Graham and his absolute amazing opinions on lisp. He understands the difficulty in changing the industry, but faces this with a good sense of humor and courage. You can check out his blog entry here.
Taking it to the next level
So the story goes like this. Michael Phelps went out there to change the world of an olympic sport. And did. Only he and his coaches know what he is doing differently but definitely, he is. Michael Phelps is such a good example because before Phelps, it was very rare to think of a swimmer that could do all the strokes in a competition, from crawl from breast stroke to his olympic record breaking butterfly stroke. In a sense, Phelps is like lisp. Phelps came to the 2004 Athens olympic games as a kid, he was only 19 years old, but everyone knew he had the chance to break the olympic record for 7 gold medals in the same event. He went on it and won 8 of them. So... what is he doing differently than any other swimmer? How long does he train? How different is his mindset on the sport?
When you think about this, lisp may sound familiar. If you really want to became the ultimate hacker, you should go ahead and check out what lisp has to offer.
The software industry now-a-days to my little-to-no experience
As we all know, the industry a slow moving giant vs the atlhetic type of hacker (ja ja) that moves towards the most cutting-edge technology as he can get. On one side we got the old school'd very bureaucratic type of changes going on, the place where even making a slight variation on a methodology would require long meetings and years to implement fully. On the other side, we got the ever starving nerd hungry for more and more power, where changes are just a few clicks away on the web and all of the sudden boom! lisp happens.
If we think about it, it makes sense that in the industry changes happen so gradually over time, there is such an enormous amount of people that need to understand everything perfectly, that every step of the process has got to be planned, people have to get prepared to enter the new methodology and this takes time and effort, which mostly translate to money. The hungry nerds are just a few people that may want to change the way we see things, and so, they choose change.
Many companies don't really want to move towards the new world order because of the cost it implies. Because of the difficulty and the challenges that may arise when taking on harder and more alien solutions. And I don't really blame them.
Be the game changer
For me, it all comes down to this. Make things as powerful as you can, but also as simple as you can. Because augmenting the size of the work not done is a form of art.
- Diego.
Taking it to the next level
So the story goes like this. Michael Phelps went out there to change the world of an olympic sport. And did. Only he and his coaches know what he is doing differently but definitely, he is. Michael Phelps is such a good example because before Phelps, it was very rare to think of a swimmer that could do all the strokes in a competition, from crawl from breast stroke to his olympic record breaking butterfly stroke. In a sense, Phelps is like lisp. Phelps came to the 2004 Athens olympic games as a kid, he was only 19 years old, but everyone knew he had the chance to break the olympic record for 7 gold medals in the same event. He went on it and won 8 of them. So... what is he doing differently than any other swimmer? How long does he train? How different is his mindset on the sport?
When you think about this, lisp may sound familiar. If you really want to became the ultimate hacker, you should go ahead and check out what lisp has to offer.
The software industry now-a-days to my little-to-no experience
As we all know, the industry a slow moving giant vs the atlhetic type of hacker (ja ja) that moves towards the most cutting-edge technology as he can get. On one side we got the old school'd very bureaucratic type of changes going on, the place where even making a slight variation on a methodology would require long meetings and years to implement fully. On the other side, we got the ever starving nerd hungry for more and more power, where changes are just a few clicks away on the web and all of the sudden boom! lisp happens.
If we think about it, it makes sense that in the industry changes happen so gradually over time, there is such an enormous amount of people that need to understand everything perfectly, that every step of the process has got to be planned, people have to get prepared to enter the new methodology and this takes time and effort, which mostly translate to money. The hungry nerds are just a few people that may want to change the way we see things, and so, they choose change.
Many companies don't really want to move towards the new world order because of the cost it implies. Because of the difficulty and the challenges that may arise when taking on harder and more alien solutions. And I don't really blame them.
Be the game changer
For me, it all comes down to this. Make things as powerful as you can, but also as simple as you can. Because augmenting the size of the work not done is a form of art.
- Diego.
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