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> if someone who is not a programmer but is an artist or a writer, dabbles in programming, it is often met with derision and extreme nitpicking by programmers
by Igelau 6y ago
> if someone who is not a programmer but is an artist or a writer, dabbles in programming, it is often met with derision and extreme nitpicking by programmers
I've honestly never seen this happen and have no idea what kind of person would react this way.
- Ansil849 6y ago>> if someone who is not a programmer but is an artist or a writer, dabbles in programming, it is often met with derision and extreme nitpicking by programmers > I've honestly never seen this happen and have no idea what kind of person would react this way. Take a look at some HN user responses to when the Google Will Eat Itself art project was posted here [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=gwei.org https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=gwei.org A couple choice examples of the kind of behavior I am talking about: > I'm pretty sure it would be trivial to write a program that automatically generates modern "art" exhibit descriptions like this one. > I'm not sure what's worse, the fact that this is a stupid idea - or the background And so on...