If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers (2004)
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If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers (2004)
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Re: If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers (2004)
#2The article is from 2004. In the meantime, we've seen considerable progress. The mindshare of banging nails with rocks (as opposed to a nailgun or a hammer) has gone up considerably since 2004.
Re: If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers (2004)
#3Could be updated:
Interviewer: Could you give us a couple of examples of carpentry projects you have completed in your spare time, and do you have a portfolio of projects you have worked on outside of your day-to-day job?
Carpenter: Uhm, what do you mean?
Interviewer: I mean like carpentry in your community, or a project you've completed to hone your skills outside work?
Carpenter: Oh, I am usually quite tired of hammers and nails when I get home and I like to spend some time cooking and cycling, but my carpentry work I do in my day job I am really proud of.
Interviewer: We are not really interest in your day job.
Carpenter: ..
Re: If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers (2004)
#4You forgot the job description beforehand that expects the carpenter to also have experience as a metalworker, welder, plumber, electrician and bricklayer. Oh, we could hire all those roles separately, but hey we want a rockstar ninja capable of everything who's willing to work for less than market rate.
Re: If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers (2004)
#5Could be updated: Interviewer: Could you give us a couple of examples of carpentry projects you have completed in your spare time, and do you have a portfolio of projects you have worked on outside of your day-to-day job? Carpenter: Uhm, what do you mean? Interviewer: I mean like carpentry in your community, or a project you've completed to hone your skills outside work? Carpenter: Oh, I am usually quite tired of ham…
It would be pretty cool if programmers could show their day job programs the way a carpenter can say "I build this" and people could look at it to see its quality. Unfortunately, this is often not possible.
Re: If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers (2004)
#6The article is from 2004. In the meantime, we've seen considerable progress. The mindshare of banging nails with rocks (as opposed to a nailgun or a hammer) has gone up considerably since 2004.
At least we have BYOR (bring your own rock) policies now. Remember the days when the client provided the rock, ugh!
Re: If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers (2004)
#7I grabbed this article and replaced:
- "carpenter" with "data scientist"
- "brown" with "machine learning"
- "walnut" with "AI" and
- "rock" with "Kubernetes"
It was perfectly up to date regarding my neck of the woods :)
(edit: formatting)
Re: If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers (2004)
#8Hiring a good carpenter is probably way easier than hiring a good programmer.
Carpeting is just more tangible, I think.
Re: If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers (2004)
#9I grabbed this article and replaced: - "carpenter" with "data scientist" - "brown" with "machine learning" - "walnut" with "AI" and - "rock" with "Kubernetes" It was perfectly up to date regarding my neck of the woods :) (edit: formatting)
That sounds hilarious. Could you post it here?
Re: If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers (2004)
#10> Interviewer: How long have you been doing it?
> Carpenter: Ten years.
Now if that were 20 years, instead of the rock it would be a complex, slow hammering machine that employed tumbled-smooth colored rocks.
Those rocks would pulled from a shared quarry at the point in time when they were needed.
The new way to provide such rocks would be to order a large truck carrying the rock hammering machine and a set of subcontractors you'd previously had to train by showing them videos on an old VHS tape player. However, the truck would still need to be loaded after each materialization for the job. The truck usually would contain the same supplies, but sometimes some of the rocks would be replaced by scorpions.
Whether or not to use the truck at a job and which trucking company would be a point of debate. Google Building Co. would make the best fleets of trucks with laser targeting systems that made sense to the highly-intelligent, fluffy bears that worked there. Microsoft Building Co. also had two versions of trucks: the old truck that was much slower but worked with existing technology and the new truck which worked if you used a Danish truck and better smaller rocks that few people could find. All of their workers swore like sailors. A subcontracting team all wearing red baseball caps worked with both companies, but supplied their own equipment that was all transparent, and you could either pay for it or not, depending on whether or not you got it from someone else they gave it to.
...there was something about nails, but I forget.