Readit Newshailt commented on How to write stuff no one else can thewritetoroam.com/2024/0... · Posted by u/EthanDBrooks
hailt commented on Researchers find signs of intelligence among jumping spiders knowablemagazine.org/cont... · Posted by u/highway-trees
hailt commented on The end of the accounting search lwn.net/Articles/925782/... · Posted by u/belter
Genuine question: do you find there is creativity and the satisfaction of creating something from nothing in accounting work? It has always seemed so dull from the outside looking in (cue the joes about accountants) but is this the reality?
Many people don’t see software engineering as creative but it certainly can be!
Accounting work is in many ways similar to a garbage collector in program runtimes (e.g. JVM). Their primary goal is to manage available resources: keeping track of current usage, anticipate future availability and prevent misuse. In that sense, there can be a lot of creativity in the optimization of that process just as software people have from tweaking a piece of code to work better.
In fact, that's more or less what iOS was for a long time, and I loved every second of it.
Once you have a good feature set, you can spend years and years ironing out 100% of the bugs and vulnerabilities and you'd build a rabid fanbase of crotchety tech-saturated users like me. I want something that Just Works.