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Average Joe does not know what source code is, nor is he able to tell one piece of source code or one programming language apart from another, it is all gibberi
by erikbye 10y ago
Average Joe does not know what source code is, nor is he able to tell one piece of source code or one programming language apart from another, it is all gibberish to probably the majority of the jury.
Hell, a few years back most Americans did not know that McDonald's was unhealthy, they had to be told this...
- bshimmin 10y agoLet me share a conversation I had with a family friend a bit ago: she peers over my shoulder at my monitor, which has (let's say) a screenful of some Ruby on Rails app in Sublime Text Her: "Is that... code?" Me: "Yep, that's right. It's the code for a web site." Her: "Wow, your code is so beautiful!" Me (surprised): "Really? What makes you say that?" Her: "All those lovely colours! I didn't know you were so artistic - did you do the colours yourself?"
- DiabloD3 10y agoThat is terrifying.
- erikbye 10y agoRight. Actually had something similar happen. An acquaintance of mine glanced at a monitor with Sublime and Monokai theme (don't like it, just happened to be on) and went "Wow, that looks really heavy [as in complicated], cool colors too!" Obviously it was nothing "heavy", just code, but all code would have looked complicated to him.
- josu 10y agoTo further your point, the expert had to use Harry Potter as an analogy. In my opinion, analogies should be banned from courtrooms. They are fine for casual discussions, but they are often misleading.
- abraae 10y agoSlugulus Eructo!
- omegaham 10y agoI disagree, as precedent is hugely important in interpreting the law. You link the existing situation to precedent with analogy.
- erikbye 10y agohttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/1999/jun/23/microsoft.business https://www.theguardian.com/technology/1999/jun/23/microsoft...