Re:I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation
by ccallebs on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @09:21AM
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Perhaps for simple plumbing jobs (like the ones you mention). However, things are rarely so easy once you start actually working. Like with most things, being skilled at plumbing is being able to handle the edge cases. And trust me, plumbing is not fault tolerant. :)
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Re:I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation
by sk5t on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @12:49PM
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Exactly - you start setting up, then discover a 100 year old shutoff valve, which then breaks off in your hand, or there's mercury in an old heating system, or water leaks appearing 10m away from the source... In both programming and plumbing there's no substitute for years of experience in learning how to handle uncooperative reality.