Programming is not a Super-Power

http://math-blog.com/2013/06/04/programming-is-not-a-super-power/

by acangiano • 13 years ago

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ippisl• 13 years ago

The author forget the value that programming in the small holds.

With few hundreds of lines of code, you can write a useful extension for firefox, or a usefull plugin for some content management system , or connect few API's data in a way that offers great value[1], or just massage some excel table and save tons of work, or build a simple but very valuable arduino project[2].

And the situation is just getting better with more powerful libraries.

[1]There's an application that just takes real-time data on when trees shed out leafs and shows it on a map. Really helpfull for people with allergies/asthma to certain kinds of trees , to plan their route.

[2]A group of girls in palestine(one of their relatives is blind) built a walking cane for the blind that detects obstacles using ultrasound and vibrates in response. This is an improvement to current walking canes.

n3rdy• 13 years ago

Good programmers are just people who won a genetic lottery that gave them an above average short term memory.

Machine learning is just a fad.

Difficult to take the article seriously after that.

Programming is not a Super-Power

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