The Shining Is a Film About Developer Madness
You don’t need to be mad to be a developer but it helps
Software development has merely provided us with more efficient means of going crazy
Many people think the shining is about angry telepathic hotel making a recovering alcoholic (with anger issues) go mad whilst trying to write a manuscript in a snow storm with a big maze thrown in.
WRONG!
It’s about the madness and pain felt by developers writing documentation no one will ever read and being forced to do other pointless tasks.
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” Einstein
Developers do that daily because we have to. Madness is knowing the faster you work, the more work you are given, but you work fast anyway.
What is the Shining
There are two versions of the Shining The Shining (novel) and the film The Shining (film).
Jack Torrance is a recovering alcoholic writer (with anger issues) who takes a job as a caretaker of the Colorado Overlook Hotel. The hotel is shut down for winter (trapped in a snow…
