Deeper question: why is Sussman wearing a fez in that photo?
"We're getting really close to the spirit of the computer at this point, so I have to show a certain amount of reverence and respect"
Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (2003)
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#42I know it's a silly game, but I'm slightly uneasy with it. If you remember a time when programming computers was considered nerdy, in a socially discouraged and mocked kind of way (until it became big money)... a game of guessing whether a photo is of a serial killer or a computer programming nerd... might seem a little abusive.
kind of agree - its the same "humour" which devolved TV like big bang theory into canned laughter shit-shows - poking fun of "virgin nerds" (which make bank).
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#462/10. Surprised that Hans Reiser wasn't on the list. (Or I didn't see him.)
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#472/10. Surprised that Hans Reiser wasn't on the list. (Or I didn't see him.)
wow you are almost exactly backwards. do you hate language inventors?
Re: Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (2003)
#48I got 2/10. And one of them only because I recognised Guido van Rossum. I'm honestly impressed that I did so much worse than chance. That must require some special kind of (inverse) skill.
Re: Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (2003)
#49I like this because I like to flatter myself that I have a good intuition about people after seeing them, and this shows that I’m completely wrong about that—barely better than random.
I was way worse than random. Make of that what you will.
Re: Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (2003)
#50I know it's a silly game, but I'm slightly uneasy with it. If you remember a time when programming computers was considered nerdy, in a socially discouraged and mocked kind of way (until it became big money)... a game of guessing whether a photo is of a serial killer or a computer programming nerd... might seem a little abusive.
kind of agree - its the same "humour" which devolved TV like big bang theory into canned laughter shit-shows - poking fun of "virgin nerds" (which make bank).
And worse. When, say, GvR was a kid, it was normal in many schools for nerds to be bullied.
Imagine someone doing this game back then, in that context, passing it around school (before cyberbullying), and it'd be pretty nasty.
We can say "but computer programming is OK, now that it's a status career that rich kids have blessed as cool, and kids don't get bullied like that in school so much, so now it's funny in a non-bullying way", I guess.
Still feels like punching-down, to me, but not everyone knows the earlier context.