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My wife knits. Yes, it’s like coding: it has a language, there are algorithms, instruction-sets and tools. And sometimes bugs you have to back-step to correc

My wife knits. Yes, it’s like coding: it has a language, there are algorithms, instruction-sets and tools. And sometimes bugs you have to back-step to correct.

sam0x17 7y ago
Read the comment carefully before having a knee-jerk reaction next time. So sick of people on here assuming something is a negative comment.
- JadeNB 7y ago
  So, if the comment isn't negative, then what is its content? Your explication https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19950959 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19950959 points out the puns/jokes/over-literal descriptions (which, indeed, I missed on first read), but I still don't understand what the point of the comment was—the descriptions don't help me understand anything about the idea of knitting as coding.
  - sam0x17 7y ago
    It's a comment. It's meant to be fun -- the title got to have fun and play around with words, why can't we? How I thought this would go: 30 upvotes and tons of people replying with more clever/forced programming languages fitting in that format. How this went: no one gets it because everyone here is so ready for a fight that they don't even try to understand what people are saying, and the downvotes pile up. Deng swoops in and posts his generic "dont dismiss people's comments" message, which is hilarious because that's exactly what he did and it's exactly what you did.
    - anigbrowl 7y ago
      There's two aspects to a joke that are equally important: one is being clever, the other is reading the room. A witty remark delivered in a snide tone followed up with a hot punchline is good for some lulz, but it's kinda like making a joke at the expense of the bartender who works at the comedy club every night.
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    - sasaf5 7y ago
      Is piling parentheses coding? Is teasing with a feather coding? Is having a violent reaction coding?
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  - all2 7y ago
    Perl is coding, knitting has two standard commands: a knit, and a purl. It's a pun. In your defense, I didn't get it until I read some of the other comments.
- dontbenebby 7y ago
  >Read the comment carefully before having a knee-jerk reaction next time. So sick of people on here assuming something is a negative comment. If many, many people are misunderstanding your comment's sentiment, the problem is with the writer, not the parsers.
- christocracy 7y ago
  Better luck next time.
taneq 7y ago
In fact some of the earliest programmable machines were weaving looms, automatically generating complex patterns. And, of course, this spurred the earliest protests against job losses to automation, with the Luddite movement.
dylan604 7y ago
My girlfriend knits too, and I think it's a toss up on which one of us curses more. Me when I realize the stupid thing I did which had been eluding me for the past hour, or her when she realizes how many rows she has to undo to get back to the point the incorrect stitch was made. At least I can just highlight, delete or just hit cmd-z. It can take her quite a bit more time to undo.
- jjluoma 7y ago
  I hope she is aware of other ways of fixing knitting mistakes given here https://knitom.com/fix-knitting-mistakes-stress-free/ https://knitom.com/fix-knitting-mistakes-stress-free/ (or google for 'knit ladder down').
  - 2muchcoffeeman 7y ago
    Without knowing what is being knitted, you may not be able to perform those techniques easily. Try that for a lace pattern with a finer yarn. Even frogging can be difficult.
dontbenebby 7y ago
>My wife knits. I think we found the reason some folks are adamant it isn't coding.

My wife knits. Yes, it’s like coding: it has a language, there are algorithms, instruction-sets and tools. And sometimes bugs you have to back-step to correct.

sam0x17 7y ago

Read the comment carefully before having a knee-jerk reaction next time. So sick of people on here assuming something is a negative comment.

JadeNB 7y ago
So, if the comment isn't negative, then what is its content? Your explication https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19950959 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19950959 points out the puns/jokes/over-literal descriptions (which, indeed, I missed on first read), but I still don't understand what the point of the comment was—the descriptions don't help me understand anything about the idea of knitting as coding.
- sam0x17 7y ago
  It's a comment. It's meant to be fun -- the title got to have fun and play around with words, why can't we? How I thought this would go: 30 upvotes and tons of people replying with more clever/forced programming languages fitting in that format. How this went: no one gets it because everyone here is so ready for a fight that they don't even try to understand what people are saying, and the downvotes pile up. Deng swoops in and posts his generic "dont dismiss people's comments" message, which is hilarious because that's exactly what he did and it's exactly what you did.
  - anigbrowl 7y ago
    There's two aspects to a joke that are equally important: one is being clever, the other is reading the room. A witty remark delivered in a snide tone followed up with a hot punchline is good for some lulz, but it's kinda like making a joke at the expense of the bartender who works at the comedy club every night.
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  - sasaf5 7y ago
    Is piling parentheses coding? Is teasing with a feather coding? Is having a violent reaction coding?
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- all2 7y ago
  Perl is coding, knitting has two standard commands: a knit, and a purl. It's a pun. In your defense, I didn't get it until I read some of the other comments.
dontbenebby 7y ago
>Read the comment carefully before having a knee-jerk reaction next time. So sick of people on here assuming something is a negative comment. If many, many people are misunderstanding your comment's sentiment, the problem is with the writer, not the parsers.
christocracy 7y ago
Better luck next time.

taneq 7y ago

In fact some of the earliest programmable machines were weaving looms, automatically generating complex patterns. And, of course, this spurred the earliest protests against job losses to automation, with the Luddite movement.

dylan604 7y ago

My girlfriend knits too, and I think it's a toss up on which one of us curses more. Me when I realize the stupid thing I did which had been eluding me for the past hour, or her when she realizes how many rows she has to undo to get back to the point the incorrect stitch was made. At least I can just highlight, delete or just hit cmd-z. It can take her quite a bit more time to undo.

jjluoma 7y ago
I hope she is aware of other ways of fixing knitting mistakes given here https://knitom.com/fix-knitting-mistakes-stress-free/ https://knitom.com/fix-knitting-mistakes-stress-free/ (or google for 'knit ladder down').
- 2muchcoffeeman 7y ago
  Without knowing what is being knitted, you may not be able to perform those techniques easily. Try that for a lace pattern with a finer yarn. Even frogging can be difficult.

dontbenebby 7y ago

>My wife knits. I think we found the reason some folks are adamant it isn't coding.