“ The tekkie outlook is often the hireling’s mentality: that first you do this job, then you do that job, whatever is assigned to you; that the specs are given to you and don’t change; and when you finish the job assigned to you, you go on to the next job assigned to you. None of these strictures has much to do with the kind of creativity that writers attempt. But then most tekkies don’t understand about writing, or words. Tekkies don’t understand about choosing the right word, the right name. They seem to think any name will do; and whatever the user chooses, the user is stuck with. This becomes the Nature of Computers. Supposedly. One result is office software that’s incredibly clumsy, with slow, pedestrian operations. Think how long it takes to open and name a file and a new directory. Whereas video-game software is lithe, quick, vivid.
WAY OUT OF THE BOX (via azspot)
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