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Talk about constructing a bunch of fake arguments to make a point. You are right - if learning to code creates such sloppy thinking as demonstrated in this post, then it's best avoided.
Commented May 15, 2012 on Please Don't Learn to Code at Coding Horror
Please Don't Learn to Code
The whole "everyone should learn programming" meme has gotten so out of control that the mayor of New York City actually vowed to learn to code in 2012. A noble gesture to garner the NYC tech community vote, for sure, but if the mayor of New York City actually needs to sling JavaScript co...
Sam - awesome presentation. An no wonder - I see you're also a Feynman fan!
Commented Sep 12, 2010 on Darwin's Finches, 20th Century Business, and APIs at What Do You Care What Other People Think?
Darwin's Finches, 20th Century Business, and APIs
This is a talk I did at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco on May 4th, 2010. I'm working on a proper slidecast with a voiceover - until then here are the slides. There is a perspective some people apply to evolution, social theory, and language change called punctuated equilibrium (credit goes to Je...
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