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Six More Tech Cults
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Dan Tynan takes a humorous look at six 'sects' of fanatical tech loyalists. 'Fandom, devotion, obsession — certain technologies have a way of inspiring an extremely loyal following. So committed are these devotees, you might as well call them technology cults,' Tynan writes in this update to last year's list, which included fans of the Newton, Commodore, and Ruby on Rails, among other technologies. 'Sometimes these cults are inspired by elegant lines of code. Other times it's dedication to an ideal. Some are looking to transform the way software is made. Others hope to transform humanity itself. And some just want to argue about it all — endlessly and at great length.'"
The sinister emacs must be purged.
Steve Jobs, Kevin Warwick, Nicholas Negroponte.
Oh, sorry. Cults.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Apple isn't #1.
To be fair to the Jobsian cult, though, the most rabid extremists I've ever come across are old-skool SGI admins. Don't even try to suggest putting Linux on ancient SGI hardware; according to sacred lore, it will turn a venerable super computer into a PC. Then they'll send you an angry email as well, just to make sure the point gets across.
"InfoWorld's Dan Tynan takes a humorous look at six 'sects' of fanatical tech loyalists.
Tech cult No. 1: The Way of the Palm
Tech cult No. 2: Brotherhood of the Ruby
Tech cult No. 3: The Ubuntu tribe
Tech cult No. 4: The Commodorians
Tech cult No. 5: The Order of the Lisp
Tech cult No. 6: Monks of the Midrange
Tech cult No. 7: The Tao of Newton
THERE....ARE.....SEVEN....SECTS!!!!!!!!!!!!
From the article:
"Programming language Ruby and its younger, sleeker sibling, Ruby on Rails..."
LOL
Such quality investigation and journalism!
Computer fanatics don't have sects.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
The first link should go here or, for a printer-friendly version, here.
You are just jealous because you were stuck with the C64 while all the cool kids had a C65
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
No surprise, the editors put the wrong link in the article. All three links link to last year's article. Here is the new article.
--Obyron
Commodore 65
(Did you even bother to read the article?)
What seems silly to me is including C64 users as a cult and only jokingly mentioning Amiga advocates in an aside. Hard to believe any tech observer including the former instead of the latter. Diehard AmigaOS advocates much more deserve "cult" status.
"t will turn a venerable super computer into a PC."
SGI might not have had the best marketing but back in the day it had some of the best hardware designers and OS/driver writers in the world as far as graphics was concerned. What they didn't know at the time wasn't worth knowing. I'd be pretty amazed if Linux could get the same performance out of the hardware even if it used SGI written drivers.