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__loamtoday at 4:14 PM1 replyview on HN

The code is what the code does.


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kennywinkertoday at 4:43 PM

The shoe is what the shoe does.

Except one shoe is made by children in a fire-trap sweatshop with no breaks, and the other was made by a well paid adult in good working conditions.

The ends don’t justify the means. The process of making impacts the output in ways that are subtle and important, but even holding the output as a fixed thing - the process of making still matters, at least to the people making it.

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