TBH I am actually really into this. First time high fashion has grabbed me w a window display:pic.twitter.com/gpFqR8BUKh
I grew up trying to understand computing culture by reading about it, including dumb essays like this one (still online! I found c. 1998)pic.twitter.com/OBigyA1Ubw
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I so, so prefer this vision of the machine room. ... ........hello knitwear
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Why would Real Programmers Don't Eat Quiche *not* be online? It's from 1984C.E. not 1984B.C.E. We're having more trouble with Vedic texts.
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Because it's awful?
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I disagree. It's humor. Humor is highly cultural, generational, etc. That humor is from a different culture and generation, but it's funny.
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I was 10 and took it pretty seriously. I hate it now for giving me so much anxiety that I would never belong. I would delete it.
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My read: You are both missing the jokes, entirely. I can't take folks getting offended at
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No no I get it it's humor, it's toxic exclusive humor and I'm glad it's in history's dustbin.
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You got anxiety and offended by a piece that was circulated online, despite not sharing in its taste. See a therapist maybe?
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I love how Ted Nelson anticipated this problem and wrote a section in Computer Lib on how to deal with the “computer priests”pic.twitter.com/A62QnOD5Gn
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This essay just seems to say "Real programmers accept egotistical behavior and require others to perpetuate it in order to stay in the club"
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I'm reminded of the Story of Mel. Which I read on paper, from a library copy of the Jargon File.
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these "real programmers" lost their jobs in the late 90s
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I've always assumed that term Real X is used ironically. (Starting from the original 'Real Men Don't Eat Quiche'.)
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