So is he ending an incredible journey or starting one?
I quit my programmer job to become a chicken
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Re: I quit my programmer job to become a chicken
#32"bwok bwok, pukaak!" to you, too!
Re: I quit my programmer job to become a chicken
#33The chicken assembly language is great.
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#34Re: I quit my programmer job to become a chicken
#35I 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 --- The author also has some…
At least he only quit to become a chicken. Better that than to become a pig!
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#36This 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.
I think he addressed it right in this excerpt!
> Cluckity cluck Cluck-cluck-cluck Bwak pukaaak Bwak Cluck. Cluck-a-buh-gawk Bwak Waaak Bok Waaak Cluck-cluck-cluck. Cluckity Cock-a-doodle-doo!
Re: I quit my programmer job to become a chicken
#37Just a reminder that classic joke:
"Why did the chicken cross the road?"
"To get to the other side!"
Is not just a stupid anti-joke about crossing the road, it is a dark joke about a chicken going to the other side of life (death).
Re: I quit my programmer job to become a chicken
#38I 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 --- The author also has some…
At least he only quit to become a chicken. Better that than to become a pig! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicken_and_the_Pig
Most slave-labouring humans aren't much more than pigs in the fable's sense.
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#39Re: I quit my programmer job to become a chicken
#40This is the kind of high quality technical content I come here for.