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I think it's great that someone is trying to make cooking more approachable by using 'geek jargon'. Who cares that it's slapping a different label on an old thi

• VLM 12y ago
  Confusion when you meet a chef and try to learn something or at least commiserate about cooking and what he calls a béchamel you try to provide ... a functional programing lambda statement based on map and reduce statements applied to lecithin proteins using heat as an anonymous lambda function. Sorta. Fooling around as a mental exercise is fun. Hey look at this, a floating point multiplier in BF! The problem is mis categorizing or mis titleing it as "learning floating point math". Describe Ops activity as a "insights from looking at cooking thru a programming lens" would sell a lot smoother than learn to cook using c++ design patterns. There is a minor area of danger in that there are many ways to hurt yourself cooking but working slowly with common sense should prevent serious accidents (I hope?) Perhaps a good analogy to "don't write your own crypto" would be "don't invent your own canning recipes" or "don't invent your own deep fat frying procedures (unless you like burn wards)"
• batbomb 12y ago
  Because there is a common vocabulary you lose when you do that, and it makes it harder to communicate without it.