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This has a very 'Victorian anthropologist' vibe. It's not the 'point and laugh at the freaks' undertone of, say, The Big Bang Theory, but it's clear the author
by cjs_ac 2y ago
This has a very 'Victorian anthropologist' vibe. It's not the 'point and laugh at the freaks' undertone of, say, The Big Bang Theory, but it's clear the author is very much a humanities person who hasn't noticed that hard sciences people have a very different view of the world.
- jpmoral 2y agoAs someone who loves both can you explain the two very different views?
- mellosouls 2y agoThere is a classic discussion on the subject described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures
- foldr 2y agoProgrammers aren't hard sciences people, as a general rule.
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- oneeyedpigeon 2y agoI don't think there's anything wrong with that — it's useful to see an outside perspective once in a while.
- mpalmer 2y agoI know several people working as software developers, myself included, who have a liberal arts education/background. And isn't the thrust of the column (or book excerpt) that there's no easily definable "view of the world" specific to software developers?
- jacknews 2y agoIndeed, we can likely pinpoint the author's social circle to north-london politically-correct literati and media/arts "people-people". The piece seems to imply that this is the real society, and that the nerds and boffins need to be controlled, lest they encode their unsavoury values into the fabric of the modern world. I mean, it's a valid point, but the delivery could be more, um, inclusive.