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Programming Is Like Sex
- Prrometheus 19y agoI’ll take your word for it.
- ken 19y agoIt's what the internet was created for.
- motoko 19y agoNo, it's not.
- Prrometheus 19y agoIt gives you hand cramps
- Prrometheus 19y agoIt's procedural knowledge
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- Prrometheus 19y agoIt’s hard to find a good partner outside the bay area
- Prrometheus 19y agoThe results are messy
- Prrometheus 19y agoYou’re usually not sure which language to use
- Prrometheus 19y agoYou’d guess Danica McKellar is good at it
- boucher 19y agoAlthough this thread is ridiculous, You get 1 point for a Danica McKellar reference.
- ptn 19y agoyou wouldn't show your mom your latest trick
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- ghiotion 19y agoWow. Add a few puns and one C-C-C-C-Combo Breaker, this could be a comment thread on reddit. That ain't a good thing.
- pg 19y agoYeah, this is worrying. A crap link and a crap thread, and it's number 2. The fundamental problem on any site like this is that it's so easy to upvote lightweight stuff. When a link sounds like it's going to take a while to read, people say "maybe I'll read it later," and never do. And since they haven't read it, they don't upvote it. Whereas e.g. a cartoon people know will only take a few seconds, so they click on it. And if they like it, they upvote it. Sounds harmless enough, right? And yet repeat and the result is a disaster. What is the solution? The Right Thing would be to somehow scale votes by how easy/hard it is to vote on something. Or I could add a downarrow on stories for users over a certain karma threshold.
- ghiotion 19y agoThe downarrow is a good idea, until you start to consider the cabal of greasmonkey jerks auto-downvoting everything on the new page that wasn't submitted by one of their cretin brethren. Perhaps there could be some kind of difficulty weight a user inputs when they submit a story. More demanding stories get a 10. Cartoons get a 1. Then give more weight to upvotes on the more complex stories. Obviously, this has the potential for abuse with folks misrepresenting the complexity of their article. But that wouldn't be hard to spot.
- pg 19y agoAnother variant would be to have the weight be voted on. Weights only matter for a fraction of submissions, so I wouldn't want to complicate submission by making everyone (especially new users) come up with a weight for what they're submitting. Maybe it would even be a good idea to have the votes on weights be public, so no one would be tempted to use that as a way of censoring stories.
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- TheTarquin 19y agoNot a perfect analogy though. For example, I really do prefer to program alone . . .
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