Comment by DanielHB
15 hours ago
People who work on really obscure things love to talk about their work, heck if someone would listen to me I could talk for hours about what I do.
Unfortunately very few people care about the minutia of making a behemoth system work.
As I have gotten older, I have grown immense respect for older people who can geek out over stuff.
It’s so easy to be cynical and not care about anything, I am certainly guilty of that. Older people who have found things that they can truly geek out about for hours are relatively rare and some of my favorite people as a result (and part of the reason that I like going to conferences).
I like my coworkers and they’re certainly not anti-intellectual or anything, but there’s only so long I can ramble on about TLA+ or Isabelle or Alloy before they lose interest. It’s not a fault on them at all, there are plenty of topics I am not interested in.
It seems a common problem in our profession that you can’t really talk to anybody about what you are doing. My friends have a vague idea but that’s it.
I would be more than interested to listen to you and what you do. Do not hesitate to share (blog post, AskHN, ShowHN, ...)
I would. Heck, I bet half of HN would be interested in what kind of insanity lies under those behemoths.
I work with music streaming, it is mostly just a lot of really banal business rules that become an entangled web of convoluted if statements. Where to show a single button might mean hitting 5 different microservices and checking 10 different booleans