![]() ![]() I do not check this site often and found I could not reply, and there was no email on your profile, so I am replying here: You had replied to a comment of mine asking what I’d meant by “Google figured out hardware didn’t matter on the server” by 2000 and how that changed the internet to make Bill’s vision come true. ![]() ― Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine. “In a book called Computer Power and Human Reason, a professor of computer science at MIT named Joseph Weizenbaum writes of a malady he calls “the compulsion to program.” He describes the afflicted as “bright young men of disheveled appearance, often with sunken, glowing eyes,” who play out “megalomaniacal fantasies of omnipotence” at computer consoles they sit at their machines, he writes, “their arms tensed and waiting to fire their fingers, already poised to strike, at the buttons and keys on which their attention seems to be as riveted as a gambler’s on the rolling dice.” Other than this one programmer, I’ve never seen any programmers or product managers or engineers as attractive as in this show. She was doing well as a programmer when the company folded. She was really pretty, prettier than the actors on Halt and Catch Fire, and got a ton of attention from the rest of the programmers who were almost all typical programmers. She was also an ex model from Denmark or Belgium or somewhere. I worked for a startup and we had a programming intern in my shop who was a new mom who wanted to learn programming. ![]()
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