Re:Ask HN: Do you feel like you “think like a computer?”
by 8bitsrule on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @03:09AM
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Geez, I hope I don't think like a computer. They can be such incredible idiots. "Oh sorry, I have to drop displaying the whole page because you left an extra flyspeck comma here." "Oh, sorry, I can't look through this line of comma-separated strings with this array function, tell me to turn it into an array then I'll do it." AGGGGGGH!
App: "Tut, tut, you didn't cross that 't'."
Me: "Then how did you know it was a 't' ??"
App: "Never mind. Just go do it while I relax a bit."
Me: "OK try it now."
App: "Whoops! Syntax jubilation error in line 1 character 1."
App: "Tut, tut, you didn't cross that 't'."
Me: "Then how did you know it was a 't' ??"
App: "Never mind. Just go do it while I relax a bit."
Me: "OK try it now."
App: "Whoops! Syntax jubilation error in line 1 character 1."
Me: "Where?"
App: "That's not my job. I do as I'm told. "