Re:What Is Code?
by murbard2 on Thursday June 11, 2015 @12:20PM
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That's only because you think your thought exists and is correct. Programming forces you to confront the fact that it isn't, and that there are many aspects of it that you've overlooked.
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So ve wants a computer that can ask for clarification and point out edge cases, like a good junior dev can.
Re:What Is Code?
by NoMoreNicksLeft on Thursday June 11, 2015 @12:31PM
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Also one that can figure out the edge cases on its own, because fuck that shit... it's a really simple idea, why can't you make it work?
Re:What Is Code?
by kincardine on Thursday June 11, 2015 @12:24PM
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_(fallacy)
And, related...
That's not exactly it though. The mistake is in thinking that your idea is detailed when it merely feels detailed.
Somewhat similarly, entheogens do not really give you profound ideas so much as the feeling that the ideas you are contemplating are profound.
This may be the reason, but doesn't have to be and often isn't. If you can explain your idea to another person, and know when they've executed it, why is that not evidence of your thought existing? Why is being able to translate your idea into the unnatural constraints of programming languages as they exist in 2015 the arbiter of correct thinking?