Posted by jonvon on September 19, 2004 at 15:11:25:
In Reply to: Re: ok, now that my wife has thrown me solidly under the bus... posted by cav on September 11, 2004 at 00:33:31:
i find the same kinds of problems with OOP (object oriented programming), by far the hardest task is conceiving an object model that will make sense in the present and be forward compatible with changes to application requirements. people who can develop good object models / architectures / frameworks are rare.
http://www.nedbatchelder.com/blog/200409.html#e20040910T084614
ned (a real and i do mean real programmer) writes,
"The non-architect architects I've worked with had many good skills. They were masters of many technologies, they learned quickly, they could work at many levels of the system, they could write a lot of code, they could mentor others, they cared about the quality of the product, and so on. But they were lacking the essential framework mentality, and it showed."
i am nowhere close to this ideal yet. actually sorta hoping to get out of programming altogether and become a writer instead. got an idea i'm beginning to work on for a first novel (dare i hope?). but in the meantime i'll keep slugging it out, trying to become an uber coder architect guy.
: ...I think in reality the whole process of categorizing these musical styles in such detail is flawed at the root. It's the same problem biologists have taxonimizing organisms...the organisms don't care what category their in. It's not like mathematics where the practicioners are trying to unravel some universal code that is a backbone for the universe, we simply trying to create a system after the fact with enough boxes to hold each group in some sort of logical order that lets us talk about them in some orderly fashion. To make matters worse, we're talking about Rock & Roll for God's sake... the whole industry is designed around taking influences (because we all grew up with something) and making it into something as different and noticable as possible, in some cases out of artisitc ambition, but more often than not, so it will sell records. Hence, Bowie and others decided to wear women's clothes... it got sales, and shock-rock, and hair bands, and bad-boy rock... and even Twisted Sister (hey, no one said the gimick actually had to work).
: Anyway my point is, we'll never be able to lock the music scene into such detailed boxes, because the devils won't sit in the box long enough...as soon as they realize their getting holed, they do something to break out...it's the nature.