I see a lot of wrong things on Twitter but I think this is the furthest from the truth of anything I've seen today.https://twitter.com/Steve_Lockstep/status/989950831951785984 …
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Indeed. The last sentence is almost exactly wrong: data often does seem like some fluid that seeps around cyberspace of its own accord.
They're sorta wrong for an interesting reason. I guess it's because interfaces often hide side effects, and this is both extraordinarily powerful - it helps make programs scale, and means I can use libs written by others - and has lots of unintended consequences.
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Sure, the reasons they're wrong include many interesting and profound areas of both computer science and practical day-to-day uses of computers.
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Non-programmers often think of programming as the computer doing what the programmer said. But for programmers it's often about figuring out how to get them to do what you want while knowing as little as possible about how it's done.
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