Mac to Programming · 11 months agoWhat are some common misconceptions about programming that you'd like to debunk?message-squaremessage-square180fedilinkarrow-up1117arrow-down17
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minus-squareWalrusByte@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23arrow-down2·11 months agoWhat’s funny about this comic now is the second one has become very attainable in the years since it was released. The concept still applies though. Some things are a lot harder than they seem on the surface.
minus-squaresnooggums@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up25·11 months agoSomebody spent the money on a research team and five years is why it is very attainable now. Someone trying to write the code from scratch would still take a research team and years to replicate it from scratch.
minus-squarerandy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up14·11 months agoAnd here I was thinking of https://xkcd.com/664/
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1425
What’s funny about this comic now is the second one has become very attainable in the years since it was released. The concept still applies though. Some things are a lot harder than they seem on the surface.
Somebody spent the money on a research team and five years is why it is very attainable now.
Someone trying to write the code from scratch would still take a research team and years to replicate it from scratch.
Oh yeah, for sure
And here I was thinking of https://xkcd.com/664/