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Or, to use the desk analogy: if you just want a desk, you generally don't learn the basics of carpentry; you just go to IKEA (or a furniture store). (Which is

by mercer 13y ago

Or, to use the desk analogy: if you just want a desk, you generally don't learn the basics of carpentry; you just go to IKEA (or a furniture store). (Which is a great thing for carpenters and furniture store owners. We're those people in the analogy, so why get uppity about people needing our services eventually?)

weland 13y ago
Actually, the very basics of carpentry are the things you use to put together the IKEA desks! No, seriously. IKEA didn't have a store open around here when I was a kid; some of the less pretentious furniture in my parents' house was made by my father, and since I was a kid, he had no choice but to need my assistance. Putting wooden things together with screws based on drawings was literally the first thing I learned about carpentry, just before sawing and all that. The fact that it's so easy should be no surprise. Patching together some stuff in BASIC is exactly as easy. Yeah, it's fucking disgusting that today's "personal computers" are such impersonally cluttered, patchy, uselessly complex designs that even experienced programmers can barely wield them.