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A software industry a few decades down the track, maybe the 2100s, where we've finally internalised the 1950s idea that 'code is data'
We must teach children to data because if they can't data by the time they leave school how will they ever data
Oh yeah bro I'm a dataer's dataer, give me a twelve pack of Mountain Dew and I can data all night
The Da Vinci Data
@natecull but then how do you describe the terminologically weird but very mainstream concept of data science?
@spinflip and worse, what about all the people trapped in datapendent relationships
Code fetischism is a complete subversion of wiki.c2.com/?PrincipleOfLeastP… .
Because it means people add more power then the least level of power necessary.
@clacke Yes: I understand the principle. How does code fetishism violate that?
Code, code everywhere, wouldn't it be cool if our configuration language were Turing complete?
Or our smart contract language, or our page layout language, or our hyperlink document language, or our animated picture language?
Or our smart contract language, or our page layout language, or our hyperlink document language, or our animated picture language?
@clacke I see. Agreed!
@spinflip I think there's something bizarrely gender-related going on, where 'code' has become seen as active and masculine while 'data' is passive and feminine, something that just sits there while code winks rogueishly and has its way with it
so to survive you wanna be the one that happens to things, not the one things happen to, which means you gotta be the CODE not the DATA
which, hmm
ASIDE FROM the problematic stereotypes, just completely ignores everything we know about computer science