Comment by TeMPOraL
13 years ago
My favourite HN piece ever: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/216352/guys_youre_not_helping.png
So, guys, should I or should I not learn to code? :D.
13 years ago
My favourite HN piece ever: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/216352/guys_youre_not_helping.png
So, guys, should I or should I not learn to code? :D.
The "don't" has more points so.. it's obvious, majority can't be wrong :)
Even if the votes was approval of the thesis it would not necessarily make it the right thing to do. :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum
Votes of interest, not necessarily approval of the thesis. That's what's wrong with HN voting ;-)
Not a two-thirds majority though :)
Both have excellent points, read them and then make up your own mind.
Unfortunately it's too late for me - I decided years ago (in favour of learning). However you're right, both articles (and associated discussions) had excellent points and were well worth reading.
Well, I think anyone who has a desire to learn programming should do so. The original debate was about whether or not absolutely everyone should learn at least the basics of programming, regardless of their passion or career. It was a good debate but as always a lot of the titles of the various blog posts involved were very link-baity.