Peter Naur's classic 1985 essay "Programming as Theory Building" argues that a program is not its source code. A program is a shared mental construct (he uses the word theory) that lives in the minds of the people who work on it. If you lose the people, you lose the program. The code is merely a written representation of the program, and it's lossy, so you can't reconstruct
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Programming as Theory Building - Peter Naur
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Draft code of conduct.
Organisation Draft Code of Conduct
TLDR: Be a productive member of civilised society, no more, no less.
Results > Character > Identity.
We care only about your character and your results. We discriminate at the individual level, not the group identity level. You can be whatever identity you want, your identity is your thing not ours, identity is meaningless to us.
Libertarian Values.