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Hackers? Techies? What To Call San Francisco's Newcomers

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Re: Hackers? Techies? What To Call San Francisco's Newcomers

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Post by avis »

The nerds come to live in the vibrant and cool city so that they could have some of its "coolness" reflected on them. Little they know the (fairly new) pretentious residents are everything but cool, SPECIFICALLY in the mission area, where large percentage live their lives believing they are unique & progressive, while in reality they are prisoners of their conceptions - the ones that got seeded in their heads by the companies the nerds are working for.

the truth is that this city is: dead at nights. have a lame hipster wanna-be community. too expensive.

p.s older san francisco residents are extremely nice!

Re: Hackers? Techies? What To Call San Francisco's Newcomers

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Post by frozenport »

smtddr wrote: post #13
dictum wrote: post #2

> 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…

Too low level, these people write javascript for a living. They shouldn't be confused with real programmers.

Re: Hackers? Techies? What To Call San Francisco's Newcomers

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Post by w1ntermute »

hmsimha wrote: post #18
smtddr wrote: post #13

Earlier 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…

So basically 'Software Americans' are doing to Americans what Americans did to Native Americans?

What goes around, comes around.

Re: Hackers? Techies? What To Call San Francisco's Newcomers

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Post by asabjorn »

dictum wrote: post #2

> 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…

What you write pretty much sums it up.

People that are seriosuly interested in solving the problem with expensive housing would probably spend their effort on lobbying for taller housing and better public transit.

But hey, linkbait like this gets more hits.

Re: Hackers? Techies? What To Call San Francisco's Newcomers

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Post by sehr »

frozenport wrote: post #22
smtddr wrote: post #13

Earlier 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…

Too low level, these people write javascript for a living. They shouldn't be confused with real programmers.

Magnetized needle and a steady hand anyone?

Re: Hackers? Techies? What To Call San Francisco's Newcomers

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Post by pkinsky »

dictum wrote: post #2

> 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…

> a fucking loser dork with inconsequential ideas and a dumb life.

>Sam Biddle of the Gawker site ValleyWag

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