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Calling people monkeys is rather abusive, and this is specifically forbidden by the HN guidelines. Ask yourself: Is your comment just as relevant if you omit that one word? If so, consider editing it out.
Calling people monkeys is rather abusive I disagree. "Code monkeys" is a common term used for programmers, and it is not at all derogatory. (If anything, I think it implies a certain level of respect.) "JS monkeys" is simply a derivative form of code monkeys.
I think this is the JS monkey equivalent of having the Chinese characters for 'strength' and 'wisdom' tattooed on your forearm.
Calling people monkeys is rather abusive, and this is specifically forbidden by the HN guidelines. Ask yourself: Is your comment just as relevant if you omit that one word? If so, consider editing it out.
In this case, I don't see anything insulting about the phrase 'JS monkey'. It's similar to the idiom 'code monkey', and I'd certainly use the term to refer to myself in casual conversation. E.g., 'Today I'm a Javascript monkey.'
We'd be in total agreement if the term was obviously insulting, but I don't see any evidence of that. Moreover, the original comment would be less interesting without the, um, moniker.
The problem (and the feature) of tattoos is their permanence - what would you want to live with for the rest of your life? Not an easy question for an engineer who embraces change. The solution as usual is to add a level of indirection - a tattoo of a QR code pointing to a URL. That way when you change your girlfriend you can change the content.
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Calling people monkeys is rather abusive I disagree. "Code monkeys" is a common term used for programmers, and it is not at all derogatory. (If anything, I think it implies a certain level of respect.) "JS monkeys" is simply a derivative form of code monkeys.
Nobody ever called me a monkey to my face, and I have several JS projects up on Github. I have trouble believing thismismamterm of endearment or respect, especially as it was used here.
Then I thought better of it.
When I was a younger game programmer, I considered for a while getting a tattoo of: function intersectRect(r1, r2) { return !(r2.left > r1.right || r2.right r1.bottom || r2.bottom After many other tattoos, some spur-of-the-moment and some thoroughly considered for years, I realized that I like my spur-of-the-moment ones a lot more. They never had any significance to lose, whereas the well-thought-out ones are more em…
This reminds me a lot of how I felt this past weekend while looking at old blog posts of mine. :)
I think this is the JS monkey equivalent of having the Chinese characters for 'strength' and 'wisdom' tattooed on your forearm.
Calling people monkeys is rather abusive, and this is specifically forbidden by the HN guidelines. Ask yourself: Is your comment just as relevant if you omit that one word? If so, consider editing it out.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Calling people monkeys is rather abusive I disagree. "Code monkeys" is a common term used for programmers, and it is not at all derogatory. (If anything, I think it implies a certain level of respect.) "JS monkeys" is simply a derivative form of code monkeys.
Nobody ever called me a monkey to my face, and I have several JS projects up on Github. I have trouble believing thismismamterm of endearment or respect, especially as it was used here.
