Any conservative IT/code writers here?

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Owl

Discussion Starter · Sep 22, 2010

If you write code, create websites, do software stuff, etc. and lean conservative, I'd like to ask a not-very-technical question via PM about an idea I have...
It's probably a stupid idea and would only take maybe a couple minutes to answer, I'm guessing. Unless it's a good idea and then we might be in for a ride.

thanks.

owl

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Phil1979

· #2 · Sep 22, 2010

I've created and/or modified a few websites, and have dabbled a little in programming. Conservative? I make Rush Limbaugh look like a panty-waisted liberal. :lol:

The Math Teacher

· #3 · Sep 22, 2010

Owl said:
lean conservative

I'm not sure....
but I don't think there are very many liberals here.

I could be wrong.
:wink:

Bkite

· #4 · Sep 22, 2010

I apply jelly liberally to my pb&js :lol:

really though, i think that usmcretired may fit that bill...

The Math Teacher

· #5 · Sep 22, 2010

Bkite said:
I apply jelly liberally to my pb&js :lol:

:shock: :shock: :shock:

I said I might be wrong.

budder

· #6 · Sep 22, 2010

The Math Teacher said:
Owl said:

lean conservative

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I'm not sure....
but I don't think there are very many liberals here.

I could be wrong.
:wink:

Off the top of my head, I can think of a dozen other regular posters that would identify as liberal.

gsusnake

· #7 · Sep 22, 2010

budder said:
The Math Teacher said:

Owl said:

lean conservative

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I'm not sure....
but I don't think there are very many liberals here.

I could be wrong.
:wink:

Click to expand...

Off the top of my head, I can think of a dozen other regular posters that would identify as liberal.

:wink:

RIA45

· #8 · Sep 22, 2010

I write code in many languages. Ask away.

The Math Teacher

· #9 · Sep 22, 2010

budder said:
The Math Teacher said:

Owl said:

lean conservative

Click to expand...

I'm not sure....
but I don't think there are very many liberals here.

I could be wrong.
:wink:

Click to expand...

Off the top of my head, I can think of a dozen other regular posters that would identify as liberal.

I said I could be wrong.

It's not the first time.

gsusnake

· #10 · Sep 22, 2010

I'm just curious, why do they have to lean conservative? Does it affect the quality of the code they write?

Is there now a "political reliability" test for coders, tovarich?

tgrt

· #11 · Sep 22, 2010

I'm a desktop programmer not a web programmer although I've picked up Silverlight. And I'm certainly conservative, so fire away.

Hack Causality

· #12 · Sep 22, 2010

Owl said:
If you write code, create websites, do software stuff, etc. and lean conservative, I'd like to ask a not-very-technical question via PM about an idea I have...
It's probably a stupid idea and would only take maybe a couple minutes to answer, I'm guessing. Unless it's a good idea and then we might be in for a ride.

thanks.

owl

Define conservative.

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SheriffOconee

· #13 · Sep 22, 2010

can't the OP just hire someone that he feels shares his worldview with??
I thought this was America???

hkdave

· #14 · Sep 22, 2010

I'm guessing he is looking to start some web site relating to right leaning values/content

Malum Prohibitum

· #15 · Sep 22, 2010

SheriffOconee said:
can't the OP just hire someone that he feels shares his worldview with??
I thought this was America???

I think people are just curious what he is trying to conserve.

Hack Causality

· #16 · Sep 22, 2010

Malum Prohibitum said:
SheriffOconee said:

can't the OP just hire someone that he feels shares his worldview with??
I thought this was America???

Click to expand...

I think people are just curious what he is trying to conserve.

Indeed. I doubt if the even the most liberal person on the forum wears an Obama t-shirt and watches nothing but MSNBC.

SaltySamurai

· #17 · Sep 23, 2010

While there are many programmers who are liberal.....if you really think about it, a good programmer who's liberal is a paradox.

Unless you're writing code for programs that attempt to accomplish tasks for other programs while catching and re-naming all their exceptions and errors while keeping an instance of hope/pride alive for the other programs to embrace.....even though they never will so long as your program is doing their work for them and the other programs are getting a free ride so you will be guilty of memory leaking your system into an inevitable crash.

Most programmers would agree that such a program is a crappy program.

So how is it possible that there are good programmers who are liberal? And, conversely, how do you explain crappy programmers who are conservative? Well.....I guess the fact that groups of computers and groups of human beings are apples and oranges when it comes to telling them what to do.

So maybe there isn't a paradox. But I tell you one thing....adopting proper programming guidelines into law-making might work. It would at least have to cut down on the waste that's currently in legislation.

Yes, I'm biased since I happen to write code (Perl, SQL, AS3, Java, blahblahHTML/XML/XSL/webbie-everything) for a living, but I have yet to hear about computers leaving their babies in dumpsters or beating their wives over cold meatloaf so computer programs succeed in keeping computers in line. Maybe they can help people at least a little.

I don't know where I'm going with all this.... in summary: Computers are better people than humans.

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Editingfx

· #18 · Sep 23, 2010

Code:

 I happen to write code (Perl, SQL, AS3, Java, blahblahHTML/XML/XSL/webbie-everything) for a living

But is your code conservative? Could you have done without that conditional loop, or those verbose #comments? Is your code tight, lean, without fluff?

:cpubeatme:

asbrand

· #19 · Sep 24, 2010

Depends on what type of conservative you mean.

Socially? Economically? Militarily?

:mrgreen:

CoffeeMate

· #20 · Sep 24, 2010

SaltySamurai said:
Unless you're writing code for programs that attempt to accomplish tasks for other programs while catching and re-naming all their exceptions and errors while keeping an instance of hope/pride alive for the other programs to embrace.....even though they never will so long as your program is doing their work for them and the other programs are getting a free ride so you will be guilty of memory leaking your system into an inevitable crash.

Sounds like a managerial function.

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