my hell is surrounded by endless reams of blank 8.5x11 eggshell-white flatstock
The more open-ended the task, the more challenging. I admire writers. Debugging code is much easier than writing good stories -- it's a lot more mechanical, and better-scoped.
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It’s the never-ending blinking cursor line of a blank document and the knowledge that the article is due two hours ago.
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Still, rate of requirement changes makes some developers wish they were writers instead.
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And us writers secretly envy coders: when weaving a code, you can know for sure how good/bad it is just by checking the results... when you write a novel, there is no way of knowing with certainity if the end result is the optimal one, you just have to stop at one point!
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Very true, instant feedback from physical laws
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True! Writers generally don’t have starter code or Github sample to start with either. Plus coding does provide you a continuous feedback about what what works and what doesn’t!
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Love your tweets and how you think about everything as a computational problem. Gives a whole new dimension to even simple things.
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Maybe with some “constraints” at the same time? which writers and artists should operate under.
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