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I’m almost certain my ability to program will help me make a dishwasher about the same as my ability to play the guitar.
by dymk 5y ago
I’m almost certain my ability to program will help me make a dishwasher about the same as my ability to play the guitar.
- monetus 5y agoButtons based on a fretboard, triggered with pickups... Timers sounding off with chord progressions... Seems fun.
- mwint 5y agoIf you’re able to program, you’re in a much better position to figure out control flow, sensor feedback systems, etc. Certainly your programming experience would help make a dishwasher more than your guitar experience.
- dymk 5y agoI'd say my general problem-solving ability would help me more than the rest of my skills combined. I take your point that it's _more_ helpful than guitar, but I see it like this: I need 100 relevant-ability-points to build a dishwasher. Playing guitar gives me 1. Knowing how to program gives me 10. I'm still 89 points short. I just think it's weird how we think that being software engineers translates in some particularly helpful way to building a dishwasher, when really one would need a multitude of skills to do so - involving electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, fabrication expertise, materials engineering.