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Hackers? Techies? What To Call San Francisco's Newcomers
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#12"n00bs"?
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#13> That prompted Sam Biddle of the Gawker site ValleyWag to suggest referring to the newcomers as "Software Americans." What is the word when you know you shouldn't look at something, but the urge to do it is too strong? Masochism doesn't quite cut it. "Mild death drive"? Anyway, I had to check the article. Here's how it ends: "So, the next time you see someone taking up a seat at a coffee shop to work on a cold cut d…
Okay, that's it. Next time I have to put my ethnicity on any paperwork.... I'm now a "Software American".
- I immigrated from Softwaria.
- Our flag is a bunch of 1s and 0s.
- Our national anthem ends with "return 0;".
- All of our city streets look like logic-gates from a bird's eye view. http://doc.union.edu/PL/ee_master_gate.jpg (yeah, I know... this is more on the side of hardware)
- Our homes & buildings square footage are always divisible by X where X = 2^N, where N represents all real numbers. (what was that symbol for all real numbers again?)
Re: Hackers? Techies? What To Call San Francisco's Newcomers
#14> That prompted Sam Biddle of the Gawker site ValleyWag to suggest referring to the newcomers as "Software Americans." What is the word when you know you shouldn't look at something, but the urge to do it is too strong? Masochism doesn't quite cut it. "Mild death drive"? Anyway, I had to check the article. Here's how it ends: "So, the next time you see someone taking up a seat at a coffee shop to work on a cold cut d…
> I had to check the article
I hope you used ad block. Otherwise you're basically paying them.
> "Software Americans"
That's just silly. We're Wetware Americans. Software Americans would be AI!
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#15> That prompted Sam Biddle of the Gawker site ValleyWag to suggest referring to the newcomers as "Software Americans." What is the word when you know you shouldn't look at something, but the urge to do it is too strong? Masochism doesn't quite cut it. "Mild death drive"? Anyway, I had to check the article. Here's how it ends: "So, the next time you see someone taking up a seat at a coffee shop to work on a cold cut d…
Okay, that's it. Next time I have to put my ethnicity on any paperwork.... I'm now a "Software American". - I immigrated from Softwaria. - Our flag is a bunch of 1s and 0s. - Our national anthem ends with "return 0;". - All of our city streets look like logic-gates from a bird's eye view. http://doc.union.edu/PL/ee_master_gate.jpg (yeah, I know... this is more on the side of hardware) - Our homes & buildings square f…
I assume you mean natural numbers, for which the symbol is ℕ.
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#16Hatchkies.
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#17In my high school, the preferred term was faggot.
Homophobia is passe now, but I hope the word "nerd" will serve people who want to stir up hate against us just as well.
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#18> That prompted Sam Biddle of the Gawker site ValleyWag to suggest referring to the newcomers as "Software Americans." What is the word when you know you shouldn't look at something, but the urge to do it is too strong? Masochism doesn't quite cut it. "Mild death drive"? Anyway, I had to check the article. Here's how it ends: "So, the next time you see someone taking up a seat at a coffee shop to work on a cold cut d…
Okay, that's it. Next time I have to put my ethnicity on any paperwork.... I'm now a "Software American". - I immigrated from Softwaria. - Our flag is a bunch of 1s and 0s. - Our national anthem ends with "return 0;". - All of our city streets look like logic-gates from a bird's eye view. http://doc.union.edu/PL/ee_master_gate.jpg (yeah, I know... this is more on the side of hardware) - Our homes & buildings square f…
So basically 'Software Americans' are doing to Americans what Americans did to Native Americans?
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Okay, that's it. Next time I have to put my ethnicity on any paperwork.... I'm now a "Software American". - I immigrated from Softwaria. - Our flag is a bunch of 1s and 0s. - Our national anthem ends with "return 0;". - All of our city streets look like logic-gates from a bird's eye view. http://doc.union.edu/PL/ee_master_gate.jpg (yeah, I know... this is more on the side of hardware) - Our homes & buildings square f…
I assume you mean natural numbers, for which the symbol is ℕ.
Ah yeah, that's it. thanks -^_^-
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#20The title of this piece really sums up my frustration. You're trying to come up with a label for a group of diverse people? Why? So you can judge, belittle, and intimidate them without feeling guilty?
Why not judge newcomers as individuals? They're people first. Some of them are assholes. Others are awesome people who are positive for the community. Same as any group.
Rents are going up. It sucks, and something should be done about it. The city should permit more construction. The Ellis act should be repealed.
One thing I'm pretty certain won't make rents go down: labeling a group of people and pressuring them to leave.