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 HenneyJul 2, 2023
@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! 🎸
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 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 threadRobert Merkel
@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.
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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.