> > Okay, I realize this contention is tangential to the main point here, but > you made some pretty strong statements that I think misrepresent the nature > of coding and developers. You say that I am "lucky" and that I'm not > representing a trend; I'll have to beg to differ. In this respect I'm not > lucky nor exceptional but pretty par for the course. To illustrate, I threw > together a quick poll and circulated it to my dev connections. >
Fascinating stuff. Still, I've had 20 or 30 conversations in my personal life that unanimously went the other way, with practically every last person wholeheartedly agreeing that coding is a tough skill to keep up on, not practicing it for a while (even a short while) can be seriously detrimental, and that it's remarkably rare for someone to be great (key word: great) at both design and development — so rare, in fact, that when someone actually knows a person like that, they excitedly refer to that person as "amazing" and feel significantly humbled by contrast. Must just be a coincidence. -r- ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
