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Yeah, building a cabin isn't a fundamentally complicated project. Think. Measure. Measure. Cut. Nail. Repeat.

spaetzleesser 6y ago
I think you missed "Know" or "Have experience" as one of the steps... Building can be pretty unintuitive if you haven't done it before.
- sutterbomb 6y ago
  No no it's all very easy, as is brain surgery: Think. Cut. Repeat. Nothing to it. Fine motor skills are irrelevant. Eyesight and depth perception play no role. Knowledge of the field can be learned immediately, in fact all you need to know is right in my three step directions!
jniedrauer 6y ago
I've seen the rage they describe first hand. It renders you unable to think clearly. Also, making a mistake is a lot easier to manage when your own finances aren't on the line.
- heavenlyblue 6y ago
  It’s quite clear to me they never held a job where their fuck ups actually imply their own responsibility for their actions.
thehappypm 6y ago
Software isn’t fundamentally complicated. Think. Type. Repeat.
- vidanay 6y ago
  You're not wrong.
stef25 6y ago
Kinda like building a web app. Think, estimate, write, compile, deploy, repeat. On a serious note, there's so many similarities between building a house and a web app. Without a proper plan and a blueprint, preferably by an architect and not the contractor - forget about it. Client never knows what they want. Small changes (KILL ME NOW) can take huge amount of time and impact things that don't seem connected, which the client never understands. The last 10% is rarely completed or done badly. It always takes much longer than expected. Everyone's excited in the beginning and considers euthanasia toward the end. It's hilarious really.
- vidanay 6y ago
  Building a cabin is more like programming a game of tic-tac-toe. They weren't trying to build the Burj Khalifa on an as-you-go basis.
- Dirlewanger 6y ago
  The similarities to web applications are not many. If you fuck up, you can erase the lines of code and replace it with the new ones. If you fuck up the foundation of your house, you've now potentially wasted many man-hours and whatever resources you used on it, and will probably need to spend just as many to fix it.
  - stef25 6y ago
    If the "core" of your software needs to be rewritten half way through the project then that's a disaster and you've also wasted many man-hours on it. Maybe my crap's not loosely coupled enough.
triceratops 6y ago
Put that way, literally nothing is "fundamentally complicated". Either you've never built a cabin and don't know what you're talking about, or you're an expert carpenter and have forgotten what it was like to be a beginner.

I think you missed "Know" or "Have experience" as one of the steps... Building can be pretty unintuitive if you haven't done it before.

sutterbomb 6y ago
No no it's all very easy, as is brain surgery: Think. Cut. Repeat. Nothing to it. Fine motor skills are irrelevant. Eyesight and depth perception play no role. Knowledge of the field can be learned immediately, in fact all you need to know is right in my three step directions!

jniedrauer 6y ago

I've seen the rage they describe first hand. It renders you unable to think clearly. Also, making a mistake is a lot easier to manage when your own finances aren't on the line.

heavenlyblue 6y ago
It’s quite clear to me they never held a job where their fuck ups actually imply their own responsibility for their actions.

thehappypm 6y ago

Software isn’t fundamentally complicated. Think. Type. Repeat.

vidanay 6y ago
You're not wrong.

stef25 6y ago

Kinda like building a web app. Think, estimate, write, compile, deploy, repeat. On a serious note, there's so many similarities between building a house and a web app. Without a proper plan and a blueprint, preferably by an architect and not the contractor - forget about it. Client never knows what they want. Small changes (KILL ME NOW) can take huge amount of time and impact things that don't seem connected, which the client never understands. The last 10% is rarely completed or done badly. It always takes much longer than expected. Everyone's excited in the beginning and considers euthanasia toward the end. It's hilarious really.

vidanay 6y ago
Building a cabin is more like programming a game of tic-tac-toe. They weren't trying to build the Burj Khalifa on an as-you-go basis.
Dirlewanger 6y ago
The similarities to web applications are not many. If you fuck up, you can erase the lines of code and replace it with the new ones. If you fuck up the foundation of your house, you've now potentially wasted many man-hours and whatever resources you used on it, and will probably need to spend just as many to fix it.
- stef25 6y ago
  If the "core" of your software needs to be rewritten half way through the project then that's a disaster and you've also wasted many man-hours on it. Maybe my crap's not loosely coupled enough.

triceratops 6y ago

Put that way, literally nothing is "fundamentally complicated". Either you've never built a cabin and don't know what you're talking about, or you're an expert carpenter and have forgotten what it was like to be a beginner.