What's the coolest job you've seen someone else have, while having the privledge to watch a pro working at their craft?
Mine would be trauma surgeon.. This guy essentially functions like "The Wolf" in Pulp Fiction.
"As in a kaleidoscope, the constellation of forces operating in the system as a whole is ever changing." - Ludwig Lachmann
"When A Man Dies A World Goes Out of Existence" - GLS Shackle
I worked/lived on a farm one summer. They had beef cattle, dairy cows, horses, chickens and pigs. They also grew a wide assortment of vegetables and a select number of fruits. It was a grass-fed, organic farm, so the work was much more hands-on than a commercial farm. Learning from them on-the-job is still one of my fondest achievements.
I also admire my father for his work in machinery. Steel mills and lathes and the works. It's fascinating what he can do with machinery most people would be terrified of.
A job I'd like to see done in person is computer programming and similar sects of computers in general. Coding language and just the nature of electronics as a whole is intriguing to me and I'd love to learn more.
The factory Honda endurance pit crew from the '80s. Headed by legendary, bespectacled, wild haired racing engineer Guy Coulon, those chaps were simply and utterly amazing.
They started their year by traveling to Japan to work shoulder to shoulder with HRC engineers and designers to modify the year's racer to adapt it to the rigors to endurance racing and to fix crash damages and non-fatal mechanical failures at lightning speed. Their feats were as important to Honda's complete dominance as the legendary RVF750 racers, "factory spec" Michelin tyres and such racing luminaries as Battistini and Vieira. If the rider crashed and could limp back to the pits... let's just say they didn't even need to talk among themselves to fix it.
Porn star...I've watch myself in the mirror BOOYAH!
Here's the programming language I'm designing. I haven't done a check-in for two months due to avalanche of day-job duties but, don't worry, I have a check-in coming! In my language, the canonical Hello, World program looks like this: main: { "Hello, world" << }
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@Branson: TMI
Clayton have you thought about making your programming language, so it has references to austrian economics? (kinda like a joke).
“Since people are concerned that ‘X’ will not be provided, ‘X’ will naturally be provided by those who are concerned by its absence.""The sweetest of minds can harbor the harshest of men.”
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No because the target audience (programmers) wouldn't get it. There are a few humorous references in there. For example, the "fnord" operator has no effect and can be inserted anywhere in a program. This is a reference to the paranoid conspiracy theory Illuminatus! trilogy and permits the programmer to put "fnord fnord" in code that he is ashamed of or is in some way sneaky or magical in order to say "You never saw this!".
Also, I named the "spit" operator as a humorous reversal of the "slurp" idiom from Perl.
Clayton: I would describe it as about as exciting as watching paint dry. There are few professions more ugly and boring than computer programming. Here's the programming language I'm designing. I haven't done a check-in for two months due to avalanche of day-job duties but, don't worry, I have a check-in coming! In my language, the canonical Hello, World program looks like this: main: { "Hello, world" << } Clayton -
I would describe it as about as exciting as watching paint dry. There are few professions more ugly and boring than computer programming.
Do you do that for a living? I find the whole topic intriguing. Not sure why. I'm a pretty low-tech guy. I'm below private when it comes to computers; I haven't even enlisted yet. I figured it wasn't exciting, but valuable nonetheless. I'd not like to be the guy who can't figure out his new gadget when I'm older. I ask in amateur language, would you say the way things work now will be the same basis for how they work later, or will they be more/less complex? Both on a developer's level, and the consumer.