I'm watching "Explaining React through Visual Metaphors" talk from #WomenInReact. It's fantastic - whether you work with React or not, you should check it out. One of the best talks I've seen in a long, long while. youtu.be/K8MF3aDg-bM?t=
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The presentation is great. Unfortunately, it is not always accurate - especially the JSX part.
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You might want to watch the talk and notice the bit where I point out that the point of metaphor is not pedantic accuracy 😉
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A really good metaphor will invariably reach that subset of the audience who tend to take things rather too literally...
"But this is nonsense! Why is the cherry blue? Cherries are red. And programming languages are not ice-creams. This makes no sense."
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😂 My DMs are full of that exact vibe
“I don’t see what potatoes have to do with web development and you’re just confusing people “
"Breaking Diffie-Hellman cryptography is like trying to unmix paint..."
"Wait, what kind of paint?"
"Any kind of paint. Just, like, coloured paint."
"Oil paint or water-based?"
"Water-based."
"OK."
"...so, mixing paint is easy, right?"
"No, mixing water-based paint is tricky."
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