Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks with Geeks | movie | 2005 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Four interns are brought into Manhattan and given 12 weeks to design, develop, debug and ship a program that will change | dG1fVm41Y2dKTF9XWFE

Transcript

00:00 The big risk a lot of people have with interns is you don't know when they finish.

00:06 The first time God created the world, it became a total mess.

00:10 So God scrapped the whole thing and started again and the big thing we learn is that after

00:14 six days God shipped.

00:17 When we first start recruiting for interns every season, we always get a huge number

00:21 of resumes that just don't look like they have any potential at all.

00:23 A huge number of resumes that you want to keep in the possible pile and then very rarely

00:28 a resume comes across that just sort of glows.

00:31 Like you try to put the resume down on the desk and it floats in the air because it's

00:34 so good.

00:35 There are 800 applicants so I mean these guys are probably amazing programmers.

00:41 I had this idea in the back of my head of you know these guys have been like the best

00:45 of the best.

00:46 So the basic idea of what ArtRack does, it's a help your mom with your computer kind of

00:50 product.

00:51 They're doing an entire software product.

00:52 They've got their whole little side of the office over there and it seems like they're

00:55 entirely self-sufficient.

00:56 Out of the blue the whole program just broke.

00:59 We finally traced it down to one tiny little bug.

01:02 No developer likes to have a bug show up in their code.

01:05 That's just part of the way of life.

01:08 There's this custom among programmers of being nice, right?

01:11 Just like there's this custom among Wall Street people of seeming like a dick.

01:15 There's something in a company this size, it's a level of camaraderie, it's almost like

01:19 a very extended family.

01:20 I would really enjoy working here.

01:23 There's things that you don't even think about when you're starting a business that somebody's

01:34 going to have to handle.

01:35 But when it's just the two of you, you do.

01:38 It's gotten to the point where I can pretty much keep myself busy all day long merely

01:43 telling people what to do.

01:45 Yeah, I do actually miss the ability to sit and write code quietly.

01:50 Nerds just don't care about being popular.

01:52 You could build something that's actually useful.

01:54 You could go put it up on your website and people could really use it.

01:57 So if you can build something real, why spend your life doing stuff that's fake?

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