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What are the craziest misconceptions you’ve heard about programming from people not familiar with it? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 10 months ago by gianni@lemmy.ml to c/programming@programming.dev
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As someone who spends time programming, I of course find myself in conversations with people who aren't as familiar with it. It doesn't happen all the time, but these discussions can lead to people coming up with some pretty wild misconceptions about what programming is and what programmers do.

  • I'm sure many of you have had similar experiences. So, I thought it would be interesting to ask.
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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have a hypothesis that a factor is that government needs to work for everyone.

A private company can be like "we only really support chrome", but even people running ie6 at a tiny resolution need to renew their license.

[–] Lith@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 10 months ago

I believe this is usually covered by the fact that you can do just about anything you need to do over mail. I once ran into a government site that only worked on Edge.