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Is leaving a piece of metal out in the rain coding? Is having coffee coding? Are snakes coding? Is a bad grade on a test coding? Is a musical note coding? Is a

Is leaving a piece of metal out in the rain coding? Is having coffee coding? Are snakes coding? Is a bad grade on a test coding? Is a musical note coding? Is a red gemstone coding? Is an even worse grade on a test coding? Is something found in an oyster shell coding? Any other fun ones I missed?

christocracy 7y ago
My wife knits. Yes, it’s like coding: it has a language, there are algorithms, instruction-sets and tools. And sometimes bugs you have to back-step to correct.
- sam0x17 7y ago
  Read the comment carefully before having a knee-jerk reaction next time. So sick of people on here assuming something is a negative comment.
  - JadeNB 7y ago
    So, if the comment isn't negative, then what is its content? Your explication https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19950959 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19950959 points out the puns/jokes/over-literal descriptions (which, indeed, I missed on first read), but I still don't understand what the point of the comment was—the descriptions don't help me understand anything about the idea of knitting as coding.
    - sam0x17 7y ago
      It's a comment. It's meant to be fun -- the title got to have fun and play around with words, why can't we? How I thought this would go: 30 upvotes and tons of people replying with more clever/forced programming languages fitting in that format. How this went: no one gets it because everyone here is so ready for a fight that they don't even try to understand what people are saying, and the downvotes pile up. Deng swoops in and posts his generic "dont dismiss people's comments" message, which is hilarious because that's exactly what he did and it's exactly what you did.
      - anigbrowl 7y ago
        There's two aspects to a joke that are equally important: one is being clever, the other is reading the room. A witty remark delivered in a snide tone followed up with a hot punchline is good for some lulz, but it's kinda like making a joke at the expense of the bartender who works at the comedy club every night.
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      - sasaf5 7y ago
        Is piling parentheses coding? Is teasing with a feather coding? Is having a violent reaction coding?
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    - all2 7y ago
      Perl is coding, knitting has two standard commands: a knit, and a purl. It's a pun. In your defense, I didn't get it until I read some of the other comments.
  - dontbenebby 7y ago
    >Read the comment carefully before having a knee-jerk reaction next time. So sick of people on here assuming something is a negative comment. If many, many people are misunderstanding your comment's sentiment, the problem is with the writer, not the parsers.
  - christocracy 7y ago
    Better luck next time.
- taneq 7y ago
  In fact some of the earliest programmable machines were weaving looms, automatically generating complex patterns. And, of course, this spurred the earliest protests against job losses to automation, with the Luddite movement.
- dylan604 7y ago
  My girlfriend knits too, and I think it's a toss up on which one of us curses more. Me when I realize the stupid thing I did which had been eluding me for the past hour, or her when she realizes how many rows she has to undo to get back to the point the incorrect stitch was made. At least I can just highlight, delete or just hit cmd-z. It can take her quite a bit more time to undo.
  - jjluoma 7y ago
    I hope she is aware of other ways of fixing knitting mistakes given here https://knitom.com/fix-knitting-mistakes-stress-free/ https://knitom.com/fix-knitting-mistakes-stress-free/ (or google for 'knit ladder down').
    - 2muchcoffeeman 7y ago
      Without knowing what is being knitted, you may not be able to perform those techniques easily. Try that for a lace pattern with a finer yarn. Even frogging can be difficult.
- dontbenebby 7y ago
  >My wife knits. I think we found the reason some folks are adamant it isn't coding.
dang 7y ago
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- steve_taylor 7y ago
  You totally missed the joke.
  - dang 7y ago
    That's always possible.
sam0x17 7y ago
> Is leaving a piece of metal out in the rain coding? Is having coffee coding? Are snakes coding? Is a bad grade on a test coding? Is a musical note coding? Is a red gemstone coding? Is an even worse grade on a test coding? Is something found in an oyster shell coding? Rust, Java, Python, C++, C#, Ruby, C, Perl. God you guys totally missed it. dang: now who had the shallow dismissal
- taneq 7y ago
  What you did there, they didn't see it.
  - sam0x17 7y ago
    If this was reddit and not HN, they would.
    - iratewizard 7y ago
      Can you guys be a little more serious. Some of us have to pretend we're working when we read this at work.
- microwavecamera 7y ago
  Look, good jokes don't need to be explained but more importantly it's "Perl" and it has something to do with onions and camels.
  - taneq 7y ago
    There's also the connection between knitting and perling...
    - gshdg 7y ago
      Pretty sure it's purling.
- tomc1985 7y ago
Rebelgecko 7y ago
Reminds me of this tweet: https://twitter.com/1opter/status/810258612316729344 https://twitter.com/1opter/status/810258612316729344 Knitting is Turing complete, and the punch card/jacquard loom analogies practically write themselves
fellellor 7y ago
Skull fucking
- sam0x17 7y ago
  I already did Rust.
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em-bee 7y ago
musical notes are...
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no-s 7y ago
reminds me of that software development conference where a developer could receive a tattoo with a favorite language icon from an O'Reilly book cover - thus becoming a better programmer, no doubt!

christocracy 7y ago

My wife knits. Yes, it’s like coding: it has a language, there are algorithms, instruction-sets and tools. And sometimes bugs you have to back-step to correct.

sam0x17 7y ago
Read the comment carefully before having a knee-jerk reaction next time. So sick of people on here assuming something is a negative comment.
- JadeNB 7y ago
  So, if the comment isn't negative, then what is its content? Your explication https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19950959 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19950959 points out the puns/jokes/over-literal descriptions (which, indeed, I missed on first read), but I still don't understand what the point of the comment was—the descriptions don't help me understand anything about the idea of knitting as coding.
  - sam0x17 7y ago
    It's a comment. It's meant to be fun -- the title got to have fun and play around with words, why can't we? How I thought this would go: 30 upvotes and tons of people replying with more clever/forced programming languages fitting in that format. How this went: no one gets it because everyone here is so ready for a fight that they don't even try to understand what people are saying, and the downvotes pile up. Deng swoops in and posts his generic "dont dismiss people's comments" message, which is hilarious because that's exactly what he did and it's exactly what you did.
    - anigbrowl 7y ago
      There's two aspects to a joke that are equally important: one is being clever, the other is reading the room. A witty remark delivered in a snide tone followed up with a hot punchline is good for some lulz, but it's kinda like making a joke at the expense of the bartender who works at the comedy club every night.
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    - sasaf5 7y ago
      Is piling parentheses coding? Is teasing with a feather coding? Is having a violent reaction coding?
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  - all2 7y ago
    Perl is coding, knitting has two standard commands: a knit, and a purl. It's a pun. In your defense, I didn't get it until I read some of the other comments.
- dontbenebby 7y ago
  >Read the comment carefully before having a knee-jerk reaction next time. So sick of people on here assuming something is a negative comment. If many, many people are misunderstanding your comment's sentiment, the problem is with the writer, not the parsers.
- christocracy 7y ago
  Better luck next time.
taneq 7y ago
In fact some of the earliest programmable machines were weaving looms, automatically generating complex patterns. And, of course, this spurred the earliest protests against job losses to automation, with the Luddite movement.
dylan604 7y ago
My girlfriend knits too, and I think it's a toss up on which one of us curses more. Me when I realize the stupid thing I did which had been eluding me for the past hour, or her when she realizes how many rows she has to undo to get back to the point the incorrect stitch was made. At least I can just highlight, delete or just hit cmd-z. It can take her quite a bit more time to undo.
- jjluoma 7y ago
  I hope she is aware of other ways of fixing knitting mistakes given here https://knitom.com/fix-knitting-mistakes-stress-free/ https://knitom.com/fix-knitting-mistakes-stress-free/ (or google for 'knit ladder down').
  - 2muchcoffeeman 7y ago
    Without knowing what is being knitted, you may not be able to perform those techniques easily. Try that for a lace pattern with a finer yarn. Even frogging can be difficult.
dontbenebby 7y ago
>My wife knits. I think we found the reason some folks are adamant it isn't coding.

dang 7y ago

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

steve_taylor 7y ago
You totally missed the joke.
- dang 7y ago
  That's always possible.

sam0x17 7y ago

> Is leaving a piece of metal out in the rain coding? Is having coffee coding? Are snakes coding? Is a bad grade on a test coding? Is a musical note coding? Is a red gemstone coding? Is an even worse grade on a test coding? Is something found in an oyster shell coding? Rust, Java, Python, C++, C#, Ruby, C, Perl. God you guys totally missed it. dang: now who had the shallow dismissal

taneq 7y ago
What you did there, they didn't see it.
- sam0x17 7y ago
  If this was reddit and not HN, they would.
  - iratewizard 7y ago
    Can you guys be a little more serious. Some of us have to pretend we're working when we read this at work.
microwavecamera 7y ago
Look, good jokes don't need to be explained but more importantly it's "Perl" and it has something to do with onions and camels.
- taneq 7y ago
  There's also the connection between knitting and perling...
  - gshdg 7y ago
    Pretty sure it's purling.
tomc1985 7y ago

Rebelgecko 7y ago

Reminds me of this tweet: https://twitter.com/1opter/status/810258612316729344 https://twitter.com/1opter/status/810258612316729344 Knitting is Turing complete, and the punch card/jacquard loom analogies practically write themselves

fellellor 7y ago

Skull fucking

sam0x17 7y ago
I already did Rust.

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em-bee 7y ago

musical notes are...

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no-s 7y ago

reminds me of that software development conference where a developer could receive a tattoo with a favorite language icon from an O'Reilly book cover - thus becoming a better programmer, no doubt!