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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Apr 2017
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    All the reasons I dislike programming boil down to "acquiring and importing data into a form where I can do something fun with it"

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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Apr 2017
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        Every programming idea I want to try that stalls tends to stall on the data acquisition step. It's pure schlep I'm only willing to do for $

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Apr 2017
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        I suspect it would be more valuable to interview programmers on variety of data sources/formats they can wrangle rather than langs/algos

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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Apr 2017
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        I would distinguish between structural messiness ("crap I have to find a json parser for matlab to deal with this") vs. semantic messiness

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        I don't mind semantic messiness. Free from string parsing for sentiment for eg. It's structural messiness that derails my motivation.

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      1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Apr 2017
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        Cf, Brooks, "show me code and hide your tables, I'll understand nothing; show me your tables and hide your code, I'll understand everything"

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      1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Apr 2017
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        Nah, it's just easiest and most fun as a closed system. All solid pro-programmers I know are data-interface ninjas

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      1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Apr 2017
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        Yeah, but there are other programming paradigms... functional tends to attract the purist lisp crowd to begin with

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      1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Apr 2017
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        I think you're using "real world" in a way that obscures the actual phenomenon. What you're getting at is actually mental model divergence.

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        I think all programmers acknowledge it exists and functional is not particularly a response to that thought, but then I don't know func prog

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        I think this issue arises at the banal level of formats first, and then at the level of arbitrary decisions that can diverge

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