If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers
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#3Gold.
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#4Stolen from http://www.jasonbock.net/jb/News/Item/7c334037d1a9437d9fa650...
The source is listed at the end of the joke so at least there was some attribution.
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#5I have read this before, and I see the source is attributed. If so, why is this link on HN and not the original. Seems a way to gather some page hits.
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#6Love it :) Sad thing is that it hit the nail on the head so accurately (pardon the pun)
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#8I will attach this to my resume.
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#9Then it means that you are applying to a wrong company (already consumed by bureaucracy, with little tech value or understanding)...
I remember my programming interviews as the most meritocratic ones (much more than e.g. in academia, where there is a problem that one is have too low high, or different official credentials).
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#10It's worse than that.
The CHAOS study, among others, shows that 80%+ of all software projects are viewed as failures by the people who pay for them.
Meanwhile you come onto boards like HN or reddit and instead of talking about how to establish and keep trust with the folks writing the checks, everybody's talking frameworks and tools.
So picture a subdivision where 80% of the houses are broken down, priced too high, incomplete, or put together haphazardly. Now stop at one of the houses where the building crew is still there and watch them spend all day talking about the nail-o-matic 200psi nailgun or the robot auto-roofer that the carpenters in the next town are using.
The situation is sad from every angle.