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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."
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!
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."