Professionalism is for Amateurs
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Professionalism is for Amateurs
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#2First, "professional" and "amateur" should be defined to better make his point. Also, the examples are anecdotal.
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#3Sounds like the author is confusing professionalism with 'conventional wisdom'.
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#4First, "professional" and "amateur" should be defined to better make his point. Also, the examples are anecdotal.
"First, "professional" and "amateur" should be defined to better make his point."
I think that the whole article is the definition, if not explicit than at least inferred from the examples. Not that I think that the only proper definition of 'professional' is: boring, limited, uninspiring (the author seems to suggest that).
On the contrary - there are some things that discern professional software development from unorganized mess and I'd rather have them in place: source control, automatic and repeatable build and deployment, regression tests etc.
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#5Professional: doing the same work many times with the same result.
Amateur: comes from a French word meaning: "lover of".
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#6Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
or
Professionalism is the last refuge of the uninspired.
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#7Professionals do what they do for a living, amateurs don't.
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#8I never use the term "professional" in the context of computing - it pretty much means nothing as far as I am concerned as to various people it can mean:
- Wearing a suit, shirt and tie
- Writing lots of documents that nobody reads
- Having source control, automated build process and unit tests
- Always saying yes to a customer
I also know quite a few "real" professionals (doctors, lawyers, professionally qualified engineers) - using those standards I'm quite happy to state that I'm not a professional if anyone asks.
[Edit: Obviously I do think one of those points above is important!]
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#9Professionalism makes the difference between bad quality and reasonable quality. For creating something amazing professionalism is not enough. Following the rules just leads you to a certain level, after that you have to break some of them.
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#10Professional: doing the same work many times with the same result. Amateur: comes from a French word meaning: "lover of".
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