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dgerard@awful.systems

remembering PG's "lisp would have stopped 9/11" essay from September 2001 (paulgraham.com)

submitted 1 year ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

can't decide if it's soothing or infuriating to learn/realize that, despite insane wealth causing him to get billionairebrain, he's also always been quite the dim fuckwit

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That's just being good at programming

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wut

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 12 points 1 year ago

That’s just being good at bootlicking

[–] luciole@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So as a programmer I was a little offended but then I remembered I’m not good so I’ll let it slide.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

That's probably a mark of an actually good programmer.