Re:On Coding, Ego and Attention
by skybrian on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @02:36PM
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It's a reductive, dismissive way of thinking, like saying that everything is ones and zeros, or that we're just copying protobufs around.
The data that we manipulate has business meaning and there are consequences for the users that arise from how we model things. Consider the genre of articles like "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" [1]. There is ridiculous complexity here, for those willing to see it, but some people get tired of it.
The data that we manipulate has business meaning and there are consequences for the users that arise from how we model things. Consider the genre of articles like "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" [1]. There is ridiculous complexity here, for those willing to see it, but some people get tired of it.
[1] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...