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Has Apple Made Programmers Cool?
An anonymous reader writes "CNET suggests that Apple has totally changed the general public's perception of programmers: It's now suddenly cool to code. No matter what platform you're on. They argue that App Store millionaire success stories have 'turned a whole generation of geek coders from social misfits into superheroes.' Apparently, gone are the days when a programmer was the last person you wanted to talk to at a party: 'Mention to someone that you make apps and their interest will pick up instantly. This is an astonishing change from what a programmer in the '80s could have expected in reaction to their job description.' The App Store millionaires, or 'Appillionaires,' may have done all of us programmers a huge favor. Programming is now socially acceptable: 'Previous generations strapped on electric guitars and fought for super-stardom in sweaty dive bars, but today's youth boot up Xcode on their MacBook Pros.'"
I was cool way before Apple.
I'm a CS professor, you insensitive clod!
Once upon a time I just had to say I was computer programmer at parties, and I would be happily left alone. Now I have to say i'm a climate change skeptic. Times change.
I think that comparison's probably a bit insulting to prostitutes, to be honest.
I think you mean parity, And it's not a was of time finding good ECC memories, parity is vital.
Yep, it's cool nowadays to say "All the men I've had sex with."
I'm a programmer, so that they just leave me alone. I say I write in Perl to those who persist, and they go away too.
If I needed attention so badly, I'd say I clean toilets, or am a funeral parlor, or kill for hire, or all at once.
I still program for System 7, but only because it's ironic.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
A programmer needs girls so he can roll tits left and roll tits right.
with a bit of brains and letting years wear you tired you kind of become a misanthropic bastard all by itself no effort on your side needed.
I've spent a great deal of time and effort honing my misanthropy you insensitive clod
Nothing wrong with being bi-curious, especially not on the road. Makes hitchhiking a lot easier!
Wait, I can finally tell my mother?
It is what it is.
And the silly thing is, most of those disdainful programmers don't know anything about solid state physics, the fundamental discipline that gives them the ability to run their programs in the first place. In other words, if you keep behaving like a nerd, you will still be considered a dweeb by others. Disclaimer: I don't know much about the subject, either.
I program on a loom, you insensitive clod!
In my experience, if you tell them you make apps they'll glaze right over and start making assumptions about you. It rarely goes over very well, you can actually see the boredom grow in their face. If you're (un)lucky they'll ask you to fix their computer.
At this point in my life I would rather joke around and tell people some made up job, like that I'm a mattress quality control tester or that I carve names into gravestones. It makes for better conversation.
Dangerous, sexy, turing complete: Femme Bots
thank you apple !
Jehovah be praised, Oracle was not selected
The only job where you lie in your back in dark corners and work with floppy cables is a network tech and a prostitute. And the prostitutes get more respect, more money and have satisfied customers.
The dangers of excessive individualism are nothing compared to the oppressiveness of excessive collectivism
Hell no, I work on Linux.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."