Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer programmers

Re:Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer... by UweSchmidt on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @07:28AM (#19623594)

Not sure if that's true. Legal minutiae and latin diseases are at least as opaque to people as software code, the actual work likely less glamorous than programming.

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Re:Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer... by world32 on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @08:37AM (#19623980)

Yeah I don't really see law or medicine as any different in this regard.

People all have a basic idea of what makes you ill, what various diseases, treatments etc. are. But most people don't understand the intricacies of the endocrine system.

People all have a basic understanding of the law, what kind of sentences to expect for what crimes, how court works etc. But most people don't understand <INSERT_COMPLICATED_ASPECT_OF_LAW>.

You see where I am going with this..

People all have a basic idea of how the internet works (you connect to the network and data is returned to your computer), the difference between 4G and Wi-fi etc. But most people won't be able to explain the difference between RSA cryptogrpahy and eliptic curve cryptography.

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Re:Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer... by UweSchmidt on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @09:27AM (#19624393)

My original point (which you don't seem to disagree with): It's on Hollywood to fix the misrepresentation of IT workers asap and produce some heroic characters from our field.

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