Programming is Construction Work

We like to think of ourselves as the wizards of the computer.. but you don't have to know shit to do programming. Programmers are some of the stupididest fucks alive. Most programmers don't even know what "=" means. Do construction workers understand mathematics? nope. They just put bricks down.. and that's all you do, doesn't matter what lofty opinion you have of your "craft". All you're doing is placing bricks. You're equal to a toiletscubber.

I understand that you're upset about being unable to read and understand SICP, but it's not structural oppression.

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>>2
Structurally oppress my anus.

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Developers (aka coders and appers) are construction workers. Programmers are the amalgam of artists and scientists.

but you don't have to know shit to do programming

Only if you are mindlessly apping the FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS laid down by some currynigger SOFTWARE ARCHITECT.

HIBT?

programming is not science, it is using a tool to complete a job
it is not art, it is practical and solves a problem, and the intent is not usually to make emotion, which is necessary for art
it is construction, plain and simple

>>8
You see, programming is sort of like jerking off. If you're a common rube, you just work on your penis for a couple of minutes while not even thinking about anything in particular and there you are.

And if you're a common rube you'll find it impossible to imagine, you will not even realize that there exist a possibility for someone constructing and visualising an elaborate scenario involving romance, true love, happy accidents, anthropomorphic ponies, weakly godlike AIs, aliens, equumorphic ponies, Hermiona Granger, winter morning sunlight, shy blushes, nuclear power plants, first kisses, and all that stuff entwined in a symphony of transcendental lust culminating in a good fifteen minutes of emotionally fulfilling ecstasy.

But yeah, if you're a bore programming would seem boring to you, no shit, what else is new.

>>8
First, do you understand the meaning of "amalgam"? second...

it is using a tool to complete a job

So scientists don't use tools to complete jobs?

it is practical and solves a problem

Most CS papers I read are as useless as a Bach score. But here you have a few definitions of art:
- Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature. ✔
- a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, usually involving imaginative or technical skill. ✔
- "skill as a result of learning or practice," from Old French art ✔
fuck with your stupid thread, programming is real life sorcering

>>8
dubs check'em

>>10

Dental amalgam is a liquid mercury and metal alloy mixture used to fill cavities caused by tooth decay. Low-copper amalgam commonly consists of mercury (50%), silver (~22–32% ), tin (~14%), copper (~8%) and other trace metals.

>>12
That doesn't sound very healthy.

Programming is a craft.

Programming is witchcraft.

brick-magic !

Programming is conjuring spells

Blood sugar baby ! Sex magic ! Sex magic ! Sex magic !

Any sufficiently advanced program is indistinguishable from magic.

Any sufficiently obscured automation is indistinguishable from magic.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/bootlegrascal">@BootlegRascal</a> - Asleep In The Machine [19:40]</p>&mdash; triple j Plays (@triplejplays) <a href="https://twitter.com/triplejplays/status/672697132525223940">December 4, 2015</a></blockquote>

>>21
doublels shrek em

>>22

Fuck some of the way off.