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All of programming comes from a sense of superiority.

Programming is the closest humanity has ever gotten to godhood. We're creating entire structured universes out of unstructured bits. The system reflects the understanding of its creator.

We're all pretending to be gods, warring over the system's design.




I wish this meme would die already. You're just writing some mumbo jumbo that you've learned (at least most of it) in a couple of years, chill out.


The tools we use shape us. Habits have inertia. The parent may be hyperbolic but it's not wrong.

But it didn't start with computers or programming, this tendency has been a long time developing.


For most programmers is that shape round?


Shrimp shaped more reliably, ime.




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