A motto for programmers: "Tuere usorem, data, veritatem"
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Re: A motto for programmers: "Tuere usorem, data, veritatem"
#2I like “e nihilo, unum”… from zero, one.
That said, I think it’d be “Tuere utentis, datum, et verum”… “data”, IIRC, would imply plurality.
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#3I like “e nihilo, unum”… from zero, one. That said, I think it’d be “Tuere utentis, datum, et verum”… “data”, IIRC, would imply plurality.
Ex* nihilo.
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#4Re: A motto for programmers: "Tuere usorem, data, veritatem"
#5I suppose the Latin phrasing needs to be double-checked, but it's nice to have what we ought to aim expressed to concisely (even in English). I guess the Latin makes it sound more serious and authoritative (but also more cryptic, so it's a double-edged sword to manipulate with caution).
May it help spread the spirit, with which I completely agree. Kudos for aiming this.
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#6Re: A motto for programmers: "Tuere usorem, data, veritatem"
#7As a user, I want to be enabled / to be able to do more things with a piece of software than what I could do without it.
I do NOT want to be "protected".
Re: A motto for programmers: "Tuere usorem, data, veritatem"
#8I suppose the Latin phrasing needs to be double-checked, but it's nice to have what we ought to aim expressed to concisely (even in English). I guess the Latin makes it sound more serious and authoritative (but also more cryptic, so it's a double-edged sword to manipulate with caution). May it help spread the spirit, with which I completely agree. Kudos for aiming this.
Getting into a rhetoric style, rule of thirds can help.
So something like:
Custodi usorem, custodi data, custodi veritatem.
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#9Honestly, I like the motto in English: "Protect the user, the data, the truth."
Programming—as opposed to medicine—has very little in terms of a relation to Latin (which shows clearly when TFA had to use ChatGPT to translate the motto to it), and a lot to English. It may not sound as cool, but the message is clear and I can relate to that.
Re: A motto for programmers: "Tuere usorem, data, veritatem"
#10As a user, I want to be enabled / to be able to do more things with a piece of software than what I could do without it. I do NOT want to be "protected".
That's why it's the developer's responsibility to do it. Because the user won't.