Getting a different compiler error is progress.
someone on elmtown
Schlagwort: Programmieren
Programess.
Bricks and Clicks.
Notions of originality (being at the origin of) and even of creation (making something from nothing) are slowly blurred in this new cultural landscape marked by the twin figures of the DJ and the programmer, both of whom have the task of selecting cultural objects and inserting them into new contexts.
Nicolas Bourriaud: Postproduction, quoted in The Lego Movie: Constructing and Reconstructing Identity by Grace Lee.
Embarressearch.
The good thing about being an academic: you are allowed to be embarrassed.
You can just say: That's the way it is and we'll figure it out eventually.
Simon Peyton-Jones: Escape from the ivory tower: the Haskell journey (around 32:55)
General Paper Lot.
The more sophisticated science becomes, the harder it is to communicate results. Papers today are longer than ever and full of jargon and symbols. They depend on chains of computer programs that generate data, and clean up data, and plot data, and run statistical models on data. These programs tend to be both so sloppily written and so central to the results that it’s contributed to a replication crisis, or put another way, a failure of the paper to perform its most basic task: to report what you’ve actually discovered, clearly enough that someone else can discover it for themselves.
There is more than C major.
A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren't flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.