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HN: Use the right tool for the job. Also HN: Always and every time do use a carpenter analogy... or something involving woodwork.
by avgcorrection 5y ago
HN: Use the right tool for the job.
Also HN: Always and every time do use a carpenter analogy... or something involving woodwork.
- tgb 5y agoSo what do carpenters use for analogies?
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- bhelkey 5y agoSoftware Engineering. "Just imagine the facade is the frontend."
- smackeyacky 5y agoWhat happened to good old car analogies? This carpenter stuff is a little too waxed moustache hipster for me.
- friendzis 5y agoModern cars are incredibly complex and car engineering/manufacturing has really complex lifecycles. It is quite difficult to make an analogy with a thing that requires a lot of analogies to in the first place to explain. Carpentry/woodworking is somewhat simple. With a saw, planer, router, sander and a few primitive hand tools you can finish most woodworking projects. Most of the complexity of woodworking is in the accuracy/quality. Woodworking is simply easy to be conceptually* familiar with.
- Aeolun 5y agoI think a lot of programmers secretly want to be carpenters.
- detaro 5y agoAlso HN: lets take a few comments and pretend that's everybody on HN ;)
- resonious 5y agoThere's no irony in this statement unless you assume that "HN" is one person who you expect to be consistent. I think we all visit HN because of the many people and varying opinions and ways of thinking. I hope we continue to see conflicting thought processes like this!