How so?
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Programmers learn to write about machines, and for machines that are not accepting any deviation from the truth. It is important to know this mode of relating to the machine of reality when you are writing about matters that affect life and death.
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Yes definitely. While not strictly speaking journalism; your tweets sometimes parse like code. Does C oding instill an instinctual preference for logical precision when pursuing explication?
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Yes, I often think of tweeting as encoding an idea.
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People have been permanently banned from twitter for saying less than that
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Yes, sometimes less is more. Qualifiers are important
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But not as better as if programmers learned how to write.
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Programming is a form of writing, but it is all about machines, and for an extremely critical audience.
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I guess it’s a mental trade off that requires different wiring in the brain... not sure if it’s possible to be as good in both worlds.
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There are certainly people who are good at both, but that's not what I am going for here. Being familiar with a level of reality that is as complex as you can imagine but not a social construct may be helpful when reporting on the ground truth.
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