{"id":395,"date":"2003-11-15T06:53:04","date_gmt":"2003-11-15T09:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=395"},"modified":"2003-11-15T06:53:04","modified_gmt":"2003-11-15T09:53:04","slug":"a-programmer-a-mechanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"A programmer &ne; a mechanic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>I<\/span> used to compare programmers to mechanics but I wonder if that comparison is still valid. At work it is expected from me to solve problems. They are categorized too and I can tell the difference if they&#8217;re critical or not so critical. Sometimes I prioritize them and can even tell a time how long it will take to get it ironed out. I log my hours. I log my changes. I log everything so that at the end I can tell where I made my changes. And users are allowed to see in those comments too: they&#8217;re actually funny.\n<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, if you bring your car to a mechanic they cannot even tell you what might be wrong. They charge you too much dollars for an hour service and at the end of the day it&#8217;s your guess if they have really fixed things or that you have been ripped off. Not to mention the scarce looking bill and the &#8216;Thank you for doing business with us&#8217;. If it&#8217;s expected from me to give exact numbers when fixing things, why can&#8217;t they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to compare programmers to mechanics but I wonder if that comparison is still valid. At work it is expected from me to solve problems. They are categorized too and I can tell the difference if they&#8217;re critical or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=395\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}