@paniq Yeah, the video is probably not super truthful, but it just makes me think about the problem in general.
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@paniq How much of our ingenuity as programmers comes from the fact that the computers we used as children were nigh inscrutable? - Show replies
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@paniq@luke_duke In all seriousness, it _is_ important that you learn how to _figure out_ things like that, right... -
@paniq@luke_duke You don't need to know how to catch a fish, but you should have the mental agility to develop a plan to figure it out. - Show replies
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@cmuratori That's true of well-designed pretty-much anything, though. E.g. modern woodworking tools make whole families of skills obsolete.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@cmuratori@raiganburns The skeptic’s guide to the universe, this week, talked about the debunking of “digital natives” for this very reason -
@cmuratori@raiganburns “kids these days don’t know how easy they have it” etc. is more honest than “all kids know how to program the vcr!"
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@paniq@cmuratori@luke_duke I've felt that actually. I tend to think before experimenting much more than my older teammates ;) -
@LiaSae@paniq@luke_duke It all started going downhill once the computer told _you_ when you could eject a disk :P - Show replies
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@paniq@cmuratori When I was young we had to remember phone numbers in base sixteen and light fires with kindling. -
@mtrc@paniq@cmuratori Luxury! We used to have to code on a keyboard with only a 0 and a 1 key.
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