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I think the OP misses the point of the shirt. Lot's of different subcultures and activities have this type of shirt. Someone could just as well wear a shirt t
by jaywunder 10y ago
I think the OP misses the point of the shirt. Lot's of different subcultures and activities have this type of shirt. Someone could just as well wear a shirt that says "Eat. Sleep. Hike. Repeat." And people wouldn't actually think the person _only_ hikes. The shirt is completely ironic because to suggest someone _only_ codes all day is ridiculous. The OP misses the irony.
- rplst8 10y agoThe difference is, Hiking is good for you.
- ryanlol 10y agoMoney can be good for you.
- geofft 10y agoWhat's the point of money if you have no time to spend it?
- unlinker 10y agoYou can drive a BMW and wear a Rolex on your way to work and feel better about yourself.
- paganel 10y agoDon't wear a BMW nor a Rolex but I imagine that the novelty and the "feeling good about yourself" caused by the possession of these two items would fade out pretty quickly.
- unlinker 10y agoNo problem. You just buy a suit then. And then a huge telly. And then a new pair of shoes. Believe me, you'll never run out of shiny stuff to buy.
- Broken_Hippo 10y agoYou need money to get to the places to Hike... and not be barefoot while doing so.
- douche 10y agoOr, you can be a broke-ass cracker in Appalachia - although most of them aren't much into hiking if there isn't a trout pond at the end or they're actually driving deer...
- Broken_Hippo 10y agoI could theoretically just hike my way off to somewhere to hike. Land use laws are different, and as long as I'm not messing up someone's forest, I'm good. And public transport will get one closer. Indiana, most of those ponds and hunting places were state parks or privately owned places with "no trespassing" signs up, and far out of the way of the city.
- jayd16 10y agoHiking all day everyday would be a literal death march.
- nightski 10y agoWorking the brain is just as important as working the body.
- a-guest 10y agoIf your manager and/or corporate environment (whether big co. or startup) encourages you subtly or not so subtly to eat, sleep, code, repeat, there is no irony. The shirt reflects an unhealthy reality.
- coliveira 10y agoCorrect, the problem is that in this profession they believe in the irony, and suddenly you're presented with bad working conditions as if they were normal or even desirable.
- zzzcpan 10y agoI think the irony is kind of offensive. It might work for other subcultures, but in software coding all the time is a stereotypical desire of an employer, who doesn't care about his employees.
- lettergram 10y agoI just woke up with the explicit plan of coding for the next 12 hours... I do this usually 6 days a week. I don't think it's as ironic as it sounds. I see your point, but I am definitely your counter example
- Broken_Hippo 10y agoMost folks don't hike for a living. On the other hand, lots of folks code for a living. While it is indeed ridiculous to think that someone only does coding, the current culture in some places is that the job should come first - before family, sleep, health, and other such things. So while it is just a bit funny when placed on Hiking, when placed on coding (or any other job activity), it just seems to reinforce such a culture instead.
- zxcvcxz 10y agoSome people code for fun too.
- panic 10y agoSure, but this shirt is being produced by a corporation and sold at a professional developer conference.
- Klathmon 10y agoWhy does that matter? I'm sure a "Eat Sleep Hike Repeat" shirt would be produced by a corporation and sold at "hiking conferences".
- Broken_Hippo 10y agoAgain, for the most part, folks aren't out there hiking for a living. Which makes the "hiking conferences" more of a hobbyist convention... outside of people that develop products for hiking. And I'd still recommend those people to hike for enjoyment in their free time and not be out there developing products or trying to sell what their company makes.
- Klathmon 10y agoI just don't get the distinction. If I program for a hobby, who are you to say how I should spend my free time? Yeah, it would be sad to see someone slaving their life away for their company, but I'm not doing that, and I'm not going to hide that I like to program outside of work (and 100% unrelated to work) because some people on the internet say I should... And I don't think shaming those who program for a hobby is going to stop companies abusing their workers after-hours...
- jonas21 10y agoAgreed. And you see this pattern used all over the place, for example [1]. It's just a way to say, "I'm, enthusiastic about ____". Fill in the blank with whatever you want. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat,_Sleep,_Rave,_Repeat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat,_Sleep,_Rave,_Repeat
- hawkice 10y agoSo, that's predated by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat,_Sleep,_Repeat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat,_Sleep,_Repeat and I suspect many other things. The saying goes back a long time, and it's not clear when it was first adapted to this usage.
- Mathnerd314 10y agoVariants go back to at least 1887: https://books.google.com/books?id=1Vk3AQAAMAAJ&dq=Eat%20Sleep%20Repeat&pg=PA139#v=onepage&q=Eat%20Sleep%20Repeat&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=1Vk3AQAAMAAJ&dq=Eat%20Slee... "There was nothing to do now but to eat, sleep, rest, and get ready for another raid on the frontier settlements." But my guess is it entered popular consciousness with the Lasting Kiss lipstick commercial mentioned in http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/29/magazine/beauty-lips-that-linger.html http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/29/magazine/beauty-lips-that-...: "Put it on. Eat. Work out. Eat. Go to the office. Eat. Sleep with your man. Eat. Repeat the cycle. And guess what? Your lipstick lasts until you take it off. You can kiss those lipsticks stains good-bye!"
- unimpressive 10y agoI wouldn't say it's irony. The joke is more "ha ha only serious" than not.
- nbevans 10y agoThis. The OP is one of "those" people that just likes to find things to be faux offended by.
- scrollaway 10y agoYou're the one who missed the point of the OP, not the other way around. It's pretty well understood that the shirt isn't itself trying to enforce an actual "eat sleep code repeat" mentality. But that mentality exists and isn't rare at all. A lot of people identify with that mentality. Maybe you identify with that mentality and that's why this post bothers you. It's.. sad you think anybody here is "offended". You're the only one who seems to have been offended.
- nojvek 10y agoI'm pretty sure this is a take on the popular edm track "eat sleep rave repeat". I'm surprised how much it blew up on this thread.
- jsprogrammer 10y agoThe ordering of activities is also a bit strange. I don't like to eat right before sleep; I'd rather eat after sleep, then code.
- eric_h 10y agoSo transpose the eat and sleep, it rhymes better anyway ;)
- jsprogrammer 10y agoTransposing printed text on a T-shirt is not so easy :)
- takno 10y agoIf you're looking for a non-coding hobby, why not make your own T-shirt though
- jcoffland 10y agoI go through periods where I only code all day.
- tremon 10y agoLot's of different subcultures and activities have this type of shirt In that case, I'm waiting for the first doctor to proudly wear his "Eat. Sleep. Operate. Repeat" shirt.