>>> Someone with programming experience could contribute in many of these areas, and still work exclusively at their keyboards and not even getting their hands

>>> Someone with programming experience could contribute in many of these areas, and still work exclusively at their keyboards and not even getting their hands dirty, if that’s their concern. I could probably be described as living in the "analog" domain, as a physicist working for a company that makes measurement equipment. Naturally, this could be an ingrained bias, but I've formed the impression that something about getting your hands dirty confers the intuition needed to work productively in this domain. You need to experience being proven wrong by mother nature, over and over again. Also, if you're sitting at your screen all day, nobody's going to pull you into the loop. It's quicker to just do that stuff ourselves, than to explain it to someone. So I agree with everything else in the article, because I love analog and love coding. But come on, join us in the lab.