Despite being convinced that we are rational people, many programmers or software types can be rabid about our favorite technologies. If you want to hear a passionate opinion, ask about favorite programming editor, programming language, or operating system. If you want to start a fight, suggest that the preference is not an objective decision. That instead it is just a preference.<\/p>\n
After you get out of the hospital, you might wonder why people who pride themselves on rational thinking are so passionately irrational about these things. Over time, I’ve finally come to understand that different people’s minds work differently. (Yeah, we should know that. After all, everyone else isn’t rational like us.) Many people wiser than I have told me this over the years. About a decade ago, I finally began to realize they were right.<\/p>\n
I am a vim user, it is comfortable and does what I need. Several of my co-workers use emacs. That’s fine. I understand that it makes sense to them, even though it seems to fight me at every step the few times I’ve used it.<\/p>\n
Over the last few years, I’ve been using a Mac for work. This is the first time in my career I’ve ever used one. I know people (some of whom I really respect) who rave about the brilliance of the Mac interface. Who absolutely adore the way the hardware is put together. Any time I’ve commented about something I don’t like, I’ve been told it’s that I “just don’t understand the reasons why this is obviously the right way to do things.”<\/p>\n
The truth is, I have read about why some of the interface issues were chosen. I’ve heard the arguments on why I’m wrong. But, truth be told, they don’t convince me. Amusingly enough, it’s not the big things that give me grief, it’s the little stuff.<\/p>\n
There are a few things that a really minor and might even be reconfigurable. They are minor annoyances, that I trip over just often enough to annoy, but not so often that I am willing to take time to find a fix.<\/p>\n
The next set of issues actually cause me some real trouble. BTW, there’s no need to tell me that I just don’t understand the superiority of the Mac way<\/em> of doing things. The arguments about superior design really don’t trump the loss of my productivity every time I trip over one.<\/p>\n In addition to the desktop machine, I also work with a Macbook. In addition to the other issues, there are a couple of things that only seem to happen on the Macbook.<\/p>\n Despite how it may sound, I’m not claiming that the Mac interface is horrible or badly designed. On the contrary, I see a lot of polish and good design in the interface. These problems are just mismatches between the world of the Mac and the way my brain works. That mismatch causes a definite loss of productivity. And, that explains why I’ll probably never be a Mac person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite being convinced that we are rational people, many programmers or software types can be rabid about our favorite technologies. If you want to hear a passionate opinion, ask about favorite programming editor, programming language, or operating system. If you want to start a fight, suggest that the preference is not an objective decision. That\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[210,340,355],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
Macbook Annoyances<\/h2>\n
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No One, Right Way<\/h2>\n