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> Developers require a lot more knowledge and skills than mechanics Oh? Care to elaborate on this statement or stop while you're ahead.
by phranc 16y ago
> Developers require a lot more knowledge and skills than mechanics
Oh? Care to elaborate on this statement or stop while you're ahead.
- lylejohnson 16y agoWas thinking the same thing, and it also reminded me of a scene from "Seinfeld": Jerry: So, Puddy, this is a pretty good move for you, huh? No more "grease monkey". David Puddy: I don't much care for that term. Jerry: Oh. Sorry, I didn't know... David Puddy: No, I don't know too many monkeys who could take apart a fuel injector.
- kls 16y agoYes I can, my grandfather, my father and myself (in my early life) where all Aircraft Mechanics. I am still a motor-sports mechanic (hobbyist for off-road motor-sports team) and restore old Jeeps, Bronco's and Scouts. From Frame to finish. I can tell you emphatically that software development is more complex than Mechanics. Further, I do hobbies work in the automotive electronics space and develop software that uses CAN, OBDII and hack ECU's. The development environments and list of technologies required are far more spare because it is an fairly heterogeneous environment but I did not say anything about automotive programming (though I do believe that it is less complex than web, mainly because it is not cluttered by technology soup) I was speaking specifically about pull a part off, replace it, run a diagnostic machine on it mechanic. I specifically chose mechanic because it is a trade I know a lot about given that it is the family business.