Things You Love are Made with Code • Hacker News Board

Re: Things You Love are Made with Code

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Post by steveklabnik » Fri, Jun 20, 2014, 9:13 PM UTC

Dewie wrote: post #50

steveklabnik wrote: post #38

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I would find it incredibly hard to believe that sexual maturity has anything to do with an interest in STEM. Some kind of evidence would change my mind, however!

> I would find it incredibly hard to believe that sexual maturity has anything to do with an interest in STEM. When you put it like that it sounds kind of strenuous, sure. Just like it sounds weird in isolation to say that being sexually maturing is often connected with irritability and rebellion and defiance against parental and authority figures, if it were not for the fact that this is an incredibly common phenome…

That's fair!

Re: Things You Love are Made with Code

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Post by schoen » Fri, Jun 20, 2014, 9:16 PM UTC

acabrahams wrote: post #45

schoen wrote: post #10

I'm curious about the use of the terminology "code/coding/coder" as distinct from "programming/programmer". I've noticed that a lot of recent programming outreach and education efforts consistently use "learn to code" instead of "learn to program". How come? What connotations do they perceive? Are they intending to refer to a broader set of activities (including document markup, which I wouldn't refer to as programmi…

I remember seeing some statistical evidence that women in particular are more responsive to ads to 'learn to code' than 'learn to program'[1], which would ring true with my personal experience where I notice I often describe myself as 'learning to code' rather than to program. [1] But I can't remember where I saw it and googling hasn't helped me to find it... :/

That's interesting; did anyone have suggestions about why that should be so?

Re: Things You Love are Made with Code

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Post by return0 » Sat, Jun 21, 2014, 12:17 AM UTC

juliangoldsmith wrote: post #11

lukasm wrote: post #8

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Could be. The question is: Do you want to drive every day to work over the bridge that was not build by engineers.

I disagree with your metaphor. If the bridge you're on collapses, you could be seriously injured. If the CRM you're working in crashes, you're moderately inconvenienced until it comes back up.

Until this CRM is in a hospital and you 're the patient in the intensive care unit.

Re: Things You Love are Made with Code

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Post by dllthomas » Sat, Jun 21, 2014, 12:20 AM UTC

s_kilk wrote: post #17

juliangoldsmith wrote: post #11

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I disagree with your metaphor. If the bridge you're on collapses, you could be seriously injured. If the CRM you're working in crashes, you're moderately inconvenienced until it comes back up.

Or your CRM crashes and loses some of your business contacts. Or it doesn't crash and just silently corrupts the data your business depends on over time and no-one spots the problem until it's too late. Or maybe the software you use leaks your secrets to others and you are unwillingly outed as transgender/gay/in-disagreement-with-the-state/etc... In this digital age, bad software can do irreparable harm to people. We…

I think those are all still at least marginally better than having the bridge you're on collapse, but on the other hand they can wind up affecting many more people than can fit on a single bridge...