Tastefully postmodern
I wonder what the post-postmodern take on this would look like.
I quit my programmer job to become a chicken
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Re: I quit my programmer job to become a chicken
#12If you are interested in chicken to this degree your theme song is. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=unW7UYXSQNY
I was expecting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msSc7Mv0QHY.
Re: I quit my programmer job to become a chicken
#1310/10 bwok cluckity cluck cluck
Re: I quit my programmer job to become a chicken
#14For those who would like a slightly more technical overview of this subject, I can recommend this research paper: https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf
I forgot about chicken.pdf... it's great to print to a buddy's networked printer as a prank
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#16I wonder if this is a parody of all those comments/articles about quitting programming to go into carpentry, or woodworking, or farming, etc.
I no longer build software - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24541964
Why software engineers like woodworking - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31687378
Death of a Programmer, Life of a Farmer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9492110
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The author also has some other hilarious articles:
- How to get over your Impostor Syndrome and become a Professional Fraudster
- Programmers, Please Stop Referring to your Significant Others as "Sugar Babies," You are Not That Rich (Also, They are Not That Hot)
- How to Reassert Dominance in the Zoom Era as a Tech Bro
- Book Review: 95 JavaScript Theses - I’ve been reading a lot of JavaScript books lately, and I have to say that "95 JavaScript Theses" is the best thing since the Protestant reformation.
Re: I quit my programmer job to become a chicken
#17This c̶l̶i̶c̶k̶chickbait article fails to answer the question on why the programmer crossed the road to become a chicken, and whether they went from programmer → egg → chicken, or just programmer → chicken.
Re: I quit my programmer job to become a chicken
#18Reminds me of this great HN thread [1]
Re: I quit my programmer job to become a chicken
#19In the spirit of the times, it's prudent to ask whether Galactica had something to do with this? Was Galactica on the peer review committee?
Re: I quit my programmer job to become a chicken
#20Is this because AI has destroyed all the software jobs? Is it really more lucrative to become a factory farmed chicken these days? I'm worried.