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Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

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Re: Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

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Post by eCa »

dylan604 wrote: post #6
kretaceous wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are in their early 20s and not American¹. Why is that so hard to grasp? 1: https://voxelmanip.se/about/

Funny, when I was in my 20s and not British, I knew what a Dalek was because it was just part of the zeitgeist. Tricoders are frequently mentioned as one of the life imitating art type of things that modern tech is striving to take from sci-fi to IRL. I had never even seen an episode of Dr Who, but I was familiar with it because of all the other sci-fi/nerdy stuff I was into. Ironically, I did know what someone weari…

> the other sci-fi/nerdy stuff I was into

I guess that’s your answer. People have different interests and as such there’s a virtually unlimited number of culture combinations that people can be into. And people can have white spots in places that are surprising to others, there’s only so much time.

Re: Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

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Post by [deleted] »

dylan604 wrote: post #6
kretaceous wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are in their early 20s and not American¹. Why is that so hard to grasp? 1: https://voxelmanip.se/about/

Funny, when I was in my 20s and not British, I knew what a Dalek was because it was just part of the zeitgeist. Tricoders are frequently mentioned as one of the life imitating art type of things that modern tech is striving to take from sci-fi to IRL. I had never even seen an episode of Dr Who, but I was familiar with it because of all the other sci-fi/nerdy stuff I was into. Ironically, I did know what someone weari…

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Re: Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

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Post by perching_aix »

dylan604 wrote: post #6
kretaceous wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are in their early 20s and not American¹. Why is that so hard to grasp? 1: https://voxelmanip.se/about/

Funny, when I was in my 20s and not British, I knew what a Dalek was because it was just part of the zeitgeist. Tricoders are frequently mentioned as one of the life imitating art type of things that modern tech is striving to take from sci-fi to IRL. I had never even seen an episode of Dr Who, but I was familiar with it because of all the other sci-fi/nerdy stuff I was into. Ironically, I did know what someone weari…

I think you hit the nail on the head there, you and the author are simply from different cultural zeitgeists. I also remember Star Trek and Dr Who being a big deal, but I was entirely too young to care. And I continue not to care, since I don't watch live action shows much. Never seen an episode of Friends or Game of Thrones either for example. Just a starkly different generation and subculture.

Re: Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

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Post by jaoane »

dylan604 wrote: post #6
kretaceous wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are in their early 20s and not American¹. Why is that so hard to grasp? 1: https://voxelmanip.se/about/

Funny, when I was in my 20s and not British, I knew what a Dalek was because it was just part of the zeitgeist. Tricoders are frequently mentioned as one of the life imitating art type of things that modern tech is striving to take from sci-fi to IRL. I had never even seen an episode of Dr Who, but I was familiar with it because of all the other sci-fi/nerdy stuff I was into. Ironically, I did know what someone weari…

It’s tricorder not tricoder.

Re: Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

Agentlien wrote: post #5
dylan604 wrote: post #2

How is someone writing an article about Android source code node nerdy enough to know what a Tricoder is? I don’t buy it

While I found it surprising at first I don't think it should be. Star Trek really doesn't seem to be as big as it used to be.

Probably because it was dormant for a long time. And then when it was brought back, it was brought back by people who have no clue what made Star Trek good so it has largely sucked.

Re: Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

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Post by justsomehnguy »

Agentlien wrote: post #5
dylan604 wrote: post #2

How is someone writing an article about Android source code node nerdy enough to know what a Tricoder is? I don’t buy it

While I found it surprising at first I don't think it should be. Star Trek really doesn't seem to be as big as it used to be.

> Star Trek really doesn't seem to be as big as it used to be.

Hint: it was never big outside of the USA. If anything, Internet and the Hollywood reboots is the way most people outside of the USA learnt about it.

Also try to find Europe in the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_influence_of_Star_Tre...

Re: Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

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Post by girvo »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #9
londons_explore wrote: post #8

Notice how pretty much none of these are added in the last 10 years? Android's become 'more mature' - ie. Boring, and the joke to code ratio is dropping rapidly.

Good, I hate ‘funny’ code. Just get to the point, I’m not here for someone’s notionally hilarious inside joke from 18 years ago.

Ah I see you're one of those who would enable `UserManager.DISALLOW_FUN`!

I personally quite enjoy a bit of whimsy in code. What we do (mostly) isn't that serious (modulo those, including me once upon a time, who work on literal life and death software)

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