The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything

Re:The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything by matheusmoreira on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @10:05AM (#43905282)

All of programming comes from a sense of superiority.

Programming is the closest humanity has ever gotten to godhood. We're creating entire structured universes out of unstructured bits. The system reflects the understanding of its creator.

We're all pretending to be gods, warring over the system's design.

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Re:The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything by wiseowise on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @11:26AM (#43906215)

I wish this meme would die already. You're just writing some mumbo jumbo that you've learned (at least most of it) in a couple of years, chill out.

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Re:The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything by walleeee on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @11:44AM (#43906409)

The tools we use shape us. Habits have inertia. The parent may be hyperbolic but it's not wrong.

But it didn't start with computers or programming, this tendency has been a long time developing.

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Re:The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything by casey2 on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @04:44PM (#43909451)

For most programmers is that shape round?

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Re:The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything by walleeee on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @05:36PM (#43909908)

Shrimp shaped more reliably, ime.

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