Jason GormanJul 2, 2023

If musicians were devs:

"I'm a Fender Stratocaster player, with 10 years' experience playing major chords, minor chords, 7th chords,, the major scale in A, E and D, the blues scale in A, E and D (see my leetnote and shredderrank profiles for all the scales and chords I know). My tech stack experience includes Marshall Plexi and JCM amps, BOSS Blues Driver (BD-2), EHX Memory Man, BOSS Chorus CE-2, Dunlop Cry Baby.

What kind of music do I play? I'm sorry. I don't understand the question."

Show threadGlenn F. HenriksenJul 2, 2023
@jasongorman @dylanbeattie is a polyglot coder and musician 😄
Show threadKevlin Henney
@Henriksen @jasongorman @dylanbeattie But I don't recall Dylan having a strat... 🤔 All the rest of his experience clearly counts for nothing: we're after strat players! 🎸
Jul 2, 2023 at 3:03pmWeb
Show threadDylan BeattieJul 2, 2023

@kevlin @Henriksen @jasongorman please find my CV attached.

Also, the preferred term for a guitarist/programmer is “Marshall stack developer” 😉

Show threadRupert ReynoldsJul 2, 2023
@dylanbeattie @kevlin @Henriksen @jasongorman Snort! :-)
Show threadDylan BeattieJul 2, 2023

@kevlin @Henriksen @jasongorman I actually have two theories about why so many developers are also guitar players.

One is that certain kinds of brain cope well with intangible abstractions like harmony and recursion.

The other is that we were all lonely, socially awkward teenagers who spent way too much time doing things we could do at home in our bedrooms that didn’t require going out or having any friends.

Show threadKevlin HenneyJul 2, 2023
@dylanbeattie @Henriksen @jasongorman Ah, missed that you had a strat in there! Knew about tele and the PRS, just assumed the rest of the non-headless were Ibanez. You've got the job.
Show threadDylan BeattieJul 2, 2023
@kevlin @Henriksen @jasongorman ok, so here’s a fun question. Imagine you had to record an album of King Crimson covers performed on the sousaphone. Would you hire a sousaphone player and ask them to learn the Crimson catalogue, or find a musician who knew the Crimson catalogue and have them learn the sousaphone?
Show threadKevlin HenneyJul 2, 2023
@dylanbeattie @Henriksen @jasongorman Is this a roundabout way of confessing that you've got a sousaphone and you're desperate to use it...? 🤔
Show threadRupert ReynoldsJul 2, 2023

@kevlin @dylanbeattie @Henriksen @jasongorman
Now I'm singing this badly, to the tune of Mozart's horn concerto no. 4 :-)

"I once had a whim and I had to obey it, to buy a French hirn in a second hand shop

I polished up and I started to play it, in spite of the neighbours who begged me to stop."

(Vintage Flanders & Swann FTW)

Show threadRobert MerkelJul 3, 2023
@dylanbeattie @Henriksen @kevlin @jasongorman that’s where the analogy breaks down IMO. Programming tools vary a lot less than a sousaphone varies from a Stratocaster, and problem domains vary a lot more.
Show threadThe Long TailJul 3, 2023
@rgmerk @dylanbeattie @Henriksen @kevlin @jasongorman I don't know, looking at Bill Bailey I get the impression that once you have learned 3 or 4 instruments it becomes progressively easier to learn more.
Much the same as for languages.
Show threadMatthew SkeltonJul 2, 2023
@dylanbeattie @kevlin @Henriksen @jasongorman very good! 🤘
Show threadSteve DowneyJul 3, 2023
@dylanbeattie @kevlin @Henriksen @jasongorman
I'm afraid we're looking for someone with full stack experience, not half stack.