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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 [email protected] to c/programming
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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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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It has been a long time since I've interacted with people who are largely tech ignorant, but back in the day people always assumed I could hack anything since I'm a website developer. It wasn't uncommon for people to ask me if I can hack Facebook. I mean the answer is "probably not, but maybe", but they think that means furiously typing for 20 seconds and yelling "I'm in!", when the reality would be months worth of snooping and social engineering.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why wouldn’t you just create a GUI interface in Visual Basic to track their IP addresses tho?

[–] coloredgrayscale 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That was a decade or two ago. Now you need a react SPA webapp using angular and Rust and utilize the bandwidth of the Cloud with machine learning. To find the IP.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

that's not going to work anymore, you need iot on the edge now