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Re:Founders who can't code are like artist painters who can'... by Declanomous on Monday March 27, 2017 @05:30PM (#13971953)
There are extremely successful artists who pay for other people to create their work. Similarly, artists regularly pay other people to make things for them, such as frames, etc.

There are a lot more artists who are technically skilled that don't have a creative bone in their body. You might as well pay them to create your work so you can leverage your best talent -- your ideas.

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Re:Founders who can't code are like artist painters who can'... by heynowletsgo on Monday March 27, 2017 @07:06PM (#13972619)
An person who pays others to create their work can be called a lot of things, but artist is not one of them.
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Re:Founders who can't code are like artist painters who can'... by Declanomous on Monday March 27, 2017 @08:22PM (#13972956)
I disagree. The art was clearly created. I don't think the mechanical act of creating art has supremacy over the creative act.

In fact, I'd contend that as a society we've agreed that the creative act is supreme to the mechanical act. Architects, directors, large scale-sculpture artists. Their works are created by other people, they merely provide instructions for other people to execute.

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Re:Founders who can't code are like artist painters who can'... by heynowletsgo on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @01:27AM (#13974329)
Semantics.
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Re:Founders who can't code are like artist painters who can'... by Declanomous on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @09:33AM (#13976396)
Well the argument is obviously is going to be centered around semantics if I'm responding to the claim that an artist isn't an artist if they don't make art in the right way.
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Re:Founders who can't code are like artist painters who can'... by heynowletsgo on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @04:13PM (#13990132)
That's why we're not arguing. Art is like fun, I know it when I see it.
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Re:Founders who can't code are like artist painters who can'... by spcelzrd on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @01:12PM (#13978444)
Rodin, Chihuly, Ai Wei Wei. It's more common than you might think.
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