I would have read this article if you had left some room open for the lead-programmer to be a woman.
I understand that most people here will think I'm overreacting. We all know that it's easier to wrtie "he" than "he or she" and that if you're going to pick one gender, the most commonly picked is the male. (Quite frankly, in this line of work, you're probably right to pick "he.") If you pick the female, you're making a statement rather than just avoiding the lengthy and cumbersome "he or she." But seriously, there is so much discrimination against women in the programming world that we need to be helping women to imagine that they might be the lead-programmer rather than assuming the lead-programmer is a man.
If you were programming, you would be more specific about the possible values for a given variable.
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Exactly. It seems like we really should be posing the question, is jodi.com art? Which is, essentially the question, is abstract expressionism art? This is a question we humans have been asking ever since the first person got pissed off that Jackson Pollock made some money for doing what they believed a child could do. But, here's my question, when a 3 year old sits down in a moment of inspiration and paints a few lines across a piece of paper in a surprisingly beautiful way and calls it "3 birds," how is that not art? And if it's not art, what is it?
There was a response I believe to "oh my god" that said something to the effect that abstract art is for people who can't draw or paint. That is a horrific misunderstanding. Most abstract artists I know, including myself, could draw or paint if we wanted to. It is a matter of choice.
Maybe a child's art is art because the child can't do any "better." And maybe Pollock's paintings are not art because he could/should have just learned to paint in a representational manner.
Abstract Expressionism expresses a moment where words cannot, a feeling where there is no form. How would you paint a feeling? You can paint a look on someone's face or you can paint the color that person feels. It is not much different from improvisational jazz. Or, is that not music? I guess some would argue, no.
Anyway, in an answer to the question, is jodi.com art? I would say yes, but it's bad and pretty annoying like a trumpet player playing a high pitched sound non-stop until you shut him or her up or leave the room.
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I would have read this article if you had left some room open for the lead-programmer to be a woman.
I understand that most people here will think I'm overreacting. We all know that it's easier to wrtie "he" than "he or she" and that if you're going to pick one gender, the most commonly picked is the male. (Quite frankly, in this line of work, you're probably right to pick "he.") If you pick the female, you're making a statement rather than just avoiding the lengthy and cumbersome "he or she." But seriously, there is so much discrimination against women in the programming world that we need to be helping women to imagine that they might be the lead-programmer rather than assuming the lead-programmer is a man.
If you were programming, you would be more specific about the possible values for a given variable.
Exactly. It seems like we really should be posing the question, is jodi.com art? Which is, essentially the question, is abstract expressionism art? This is a question we humans have been asking ever since the first person got pissed off that Jackson Pollock made some money for doing what they believed a child could do. But, here's my question, when a 3 year old sits down in a moment of inspiration and paints a few lines across a piece of paper in a surprisingly beautiful way and calls it "3 birds," how is that not art? And if it's not art, what is it?
There was a response I believe to "oh my god" that said something to the effect that abstract art is for people who can't draw or paint. That is a horrific misunderstanding. Most abstract artists I know, including myself, could draw or paint if we wanted to. It is a matter of choice.
Maybe a child's art is art because the child can't do any "better." And maybe Pollock's paintings are not art because he could/should have just learned to paint in a representational manner.
Abstract Expressionism expresses a moment where words cannot, a feeling where there is no form. How would you paint a feeling? You can paint a look on someone's face or you can paint the color that person feels. It is not much different from improvisational jazz. Or, is that not music? I guess some would argue, no.
Anyway, in an answer to the question, is jodi.com art? I would say yes, but it's bad and pretty annoying like a trumpet player playing a high pitched sound non-stop until you shut him or her up or leave the room.
But, again, if it's not art, what is it?