Secure — Keys Left in Bolt

#mbmar #secure 📷 March Photoblogging Challenge

Imagined conversation from BIGPHARM Marketing Division:

So what do you think we should call it?

How about “So take two!”

Brilliant, lets spell it weird, like SOTYKTU, right?

Cool.

I’m confident in my opinions because I didn’t pick them up at the lifestyle store—instead I crafted them over time for internal coherence and reasonable correspondence with our current state of knowledge.

Too damn bad if at the end of the day the only thoughts
In your brain are all the things that they say, what a waste…
Too damn bad if at the end of the line
you got no idea of what’s on your own mind…
You’ve got no one to blame but yourself.

— Henry Rollins, Disconnect from Weight (1994)

And when I say I build software for myself, well, this intimates something more and something less than what is actually going on. I’m not writing apps and compiling and debugging and so on. Perhaps in miniature, but nothing like what a lot of folks hanging around here are doing.

You see, I see the entire world as mostly software, not the mysteriously embodied incantations running around in TRON world, but everything. Street lights and signs and signals are the software of roads. Enticing pictures and ingredient lists and cooking instructions are software for your tummy, and so on.

And all of those “anti-user” engineers? A product of my dark imagination. It couldn’t be just me being impatient, could it? No, no, no, it must be malevolent programmers. Ha!

Okay. I don’t hate grep. It is simply that my intuitions about switches are not fortuitously 100% correct, and so my lack of patience and inability to memorize arbitrary strings is exposed. This makes my uncomfortable enough to lash out. Grep, GREP is at fault!

This is of course because I build software for myself so my value vectors are always aligned.

I’m convinced there are a class of engineers that hate users and design for themselves instead.

I hate grep. I always have. I imagine it is in some way responsible for most of the misery in this world.