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This is why software is terrible. Would you test Frank Gehry on the basics of architecture? Or have Frida Kahlo count her brushstrokes or plan her day hour by h
by deanak 5y ago
This is why software is terrible. Would you test Frank Gehry on the basics of architecture? Or have Frida Kahlo count her brushstrokes or plan her day hour by hour?
I test all developers by paying them to make the equivalent of a bird box. If it comes back relatively well designed, cool, I've got a developer. If they come back with three designs for different environments and species, I know I have an engineer.
As it stands, we have kids who have zero real world experience at the helm of corporations and the results are easy to see. They rarely produce anything of value for the general population. So rare we have to call them unicorns.
- slumpt_ 5y agoYep. Software and products at these companies are often a horrific mess. Leaving one and taking a big pay cut just so I can go work with a small team of people who give a shit about software and products again.
- dsr_ 5y agoSpecifically, I wouldn't hire Frank Gehry because his buildings leak. The subfield of software development where artistry outweighs cleverness and productivity is game design -- and not all game studios exist to do things that way, just particular boutiques centered around one storyteller's vision.
- deanak 5y agoWhy would you think Frank Gehry built his designs?
- dsr_ 5y agoI have walked past one of them hundreds or thousands of times? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stata_Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stata_Center
- deanak 5y agoOkay, so... architects design the building. Engineers engineer it. Construction firms construct it. Why do you think Gehry was pouring concrete instead of designing his next award winning building?
- yongjik 5y ago> Would you test Frank Gehry on the basics of architecture? Or have Frida Kahlo count her brushstrokes or plan her day hour by hour? Not sure if it's relevant? Google has hired Guido van Rossum and James Gosling. I'd imagine Google didn't ask them to "reverse a binary tree", whatever that means. I.e., if you are Frank Gehry or Frida Kahlo, you don't need to go through hoops. (If you're reading this, you are probably not Frida Kahlo.)
- deanak 5y ago> If you're reading this, you are probably not Frida Kahlo. If someone is aspiring to be her, you just helped crush that dream a little bit more. And for what?
- Centigonal 5y ago"you are probably not Frida Kahlo" is not the same as "you will never be Frida Kahlo." It's just a fact that most people are not one of the very best in their field: 50% of people can't be in the top 1%. That's not to say people shouldn't try - after all, many of the "very best" tried very hard to get where they are.
- deanak 5y agoWhy are you assuming that everyone has the same metric for being the "top"? There are millions of artists out there, creating from the world around them something unique to their time and place. Your base assumption appears to be that a bell curve can be applied to human creativity. Ask yourself who told you this and why.