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agentultra on May 25, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: So You Want to be a Programmer

It's just a poor analogy. The two have nothing in common what-so-ever.

You do not simply modify your computer with code to make it perform better.

rmATinnovafy on May 26, 2012 [–]

Yes, you do modify the code to make the computer run better, and to do things it originally couldn't do.

I do agree that the analogy is not a good one.

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