14159th poster gets a cookie (cookie thread (Part 7)) (Part 11)

[tutuu]

LMAO

[May]

“Imagine you work at a tech company, right, you have a group of people who are like, sales, you have a group of people who are management, and you have a group of people who design the actual product, right. What do you call the people who are designing the product in a company that like, everybody needs a degree to design this product, it’s a technical job, it’s an engineer. They fit in the same mold in the workplace, it’s broadly very similar. They’re maybe not the same thing w/r/t math, but relative to other things, they fill the same role, and have the same qualities relative to other things, which is like, technical design job requiring product development.”

[tutuu]

Did you put this in quotation marks coz u asked ur girlfriend?

[May]

“And the answer is no, I would never ask my girlfriend anything, because I’m a proud independent boy”

[Marshal]

this is why i want to be a lawyer because it seems like one of the only jobs you can grind a billion hours a week out of college for a lot of money while simultaneously never doing any math

[Marshal]

maybe medical stuff but no thanks

[notblackorwhite]

Sure, but programming languages are like high-level abstractions of mathematics. It’s all baked in. You’re engaging with the mathematics on some level whenever you program. I’m really not sure you can avoid doing so barring some sort of contrived counter example.

[tutuu]

Depending on what you’re doing, couldn’t it be the case that the computer does all the math for you in the background, while you just solve a puzzle at the front

[orangeandblack5]

[Aleph (Ishmael)]

[notblackorwhite]

I mean, the minute you write an algorithm, you’ve “done math.” I’m trying to tell you that what you’re doing when you program is almost certainly a form of mathematics even if you’re not thinking about it in those terms.

[soweli]

I ordered burger

[YoubutWorse]

LETS FUCKING GO

[YoubutWorse]

Wait an impossible one right… you wouldnt eat meat right…

[soweli]

It’s not an impossible burger. Sorry.

[YoubutWorse]

burger… its not… it is… possible…

[ImaginaryNeon]

Because it sounds cool

[Ash]

[Marshal]

i’m so hyped you have no idea

[Atlas]

Something you said earlier reminded me of that. The “I’m always here to talk” thing.