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This being HN... where are the poets writing about Silicon Valley, about rationalism meetups, about starting one day too late for the IPO, about the feeling of

This being HN... where are the poets writing about Silicon Valley, about rationalism meetups, about starting one day too late for the IPO, about the feeling of finally debugging something that's been a recurring problem since before you started with the company... ?

CraneWorm 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/c/stdout/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/stdout/videos
- kubanczyk 6y ago
  https://youtu.be/_2GT2PCUN3Q?t=156 https://youtu.be/_2GT2PCUN3Q?t=156 I've finally finished, Go to Hacker News and put up a post But that shit had zero upvotes Somebody left a comment Telling me my home page ain't responsive Who that?
52-6F-62 6y ago
You might have to accept allegorical instead of literal association—most often anyway (that's the case in any subject). If you break what you're asking down into lower principles or themes, then poets have been writing about that throughout all of human history. If you want to see beauty in the mundane, the raw heart of a person experience life as it comes to them, or illustrations of a soul battered by the torrent of the world around it, (which seems to me like what you've described) then you have an immense amount of artwork to draw on, and I'll name three of my favourites: Al Purdy, Milton Acorn, David McFadden. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Purdy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Purdy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Acorn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Acorn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McFadden_(poet) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McFadden_(poet) You will be forced to associate with the writers on those themes in manners outside of the superficial aspects of your daily life, but that's more or less at the core of all art.
microtherion 6y ago
It's funny you should ask; I've been trying to write (rarely) along these lines for a few years now: https://aereperennius.org/poems/surplus_electronics.pdf https://aereperennius.org/poems/surplus_electronics.pdf https://aereperennius.org/poems/death_of_a_capacitor.pdf https://aereperennius.org/poems/death_of_a_capacitor.pdf
cwinter 6y ago
Well if there was ever an appropriate time to plug my dark fantasy machine learning poem this is it: https://clemenswinter.com/2021/03/24/conjuring-a-codecraft-mind/ https://clemenswinter.com/2021/03/24/conjuring-a-codecraft-m...
souldeux 6y ago
I'm just here to make a joke about python dependency management.
dabreegster 6y ago
I wrote some of these back in college for a research-focused STEM group; not about the tech industry culture, but at least some comp sci bits: https://dabreegster.github.io/poetry/college/overheard_gdc.html https://dabreegster.github.io/poetry/college/overheard_gdc.h... https://dabreegster.github.io/poetry/college/abstractions.html https://dabreegster.github.io/poetry/college/abstractions.ht... https://dabreegster.github.io/poetry/college/discrete_event_simulation.html https://dabreegster.github.io/poetry/college/discrete_event_... (after a course in static analysis)
Mediterraneo10 6y ago
> This being HN... where are the poets writing about Silicon Valley See Vikram Seth's 1986 novel in verse The Golden Gate [0], which mentions a Silicon Valley in its relatively early years and even drops the terms RAM and ROM in the first lines. Stanislaw Lem wrote a poem about computers within The Cyberiad. [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Gate_(Seth_novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Gate_(Seth_novel) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cyberiad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cyberiad
cehrlich 6y ago
It's prose, but have you read Thomas Pynchon's "Bleeding Edge"?
rchase 6y ago
Gauloises Smoke Algorithms a different type of thinking Tonight mechanics of language ring like bells or machinery Or lust after longing Circuits cut on paper Writ on paper Walls of paper carefully positioned Nights and nights Missing it missing you missing. Time to close to end it and/or just hit Enter Smoke Algorithms Cigarettes Return

CraneWorm 6y ago

https://www.youtube.com/c/stdout/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/stdout/videos

kubanczyk 6y ago
https://youtu.be/_2GT2PCUN3Q?t=156 https://youtu.be/_2GT2PCUN3Q?t=156 I've finally finished, Go to Hacker News and put up a post But that shit had zero upvotes Somebody left a comment Telling me my home page ain't responsive Who that?

52-6F-62 6y ago

You might have to accept allegorical instead of literal association—most often anyway (that's the case in any subject). If you break what you're asking down into lower principles or themes, then poets have been writing about that throughout all of human history. If you want to see beauty in the mundane, the raw heart of a person experience life as it comes to them, or illustrations of a soul battered by the torrent of the world around it, (which seems to me like what you've described) then you have an immense amount of artwork to draw on, and I'll name three of my favourites: Al Purdy, Milton Acorn, David McFadden. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Purdy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Purdy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Acorn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Acorn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McFadden_(poet) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McFadden_(poet) You will be forced to associate with the writers on those themes in manners outside of the superficial aspects of your daily life, but that's more or less at the core of all art.

microtherion 6y ago

It's funny you should ask; I've been trying to write (rarely) along these lines for a few years now: https://aereperennius.org/poems/surplus_electronics.pdf https://aereperennius.org/poems/surplus_electronics.pdf https://aereperennius.org/poems/death_of_a_capacitor.pdf https://aereperennius.org/poems/death_of_a_capacitor.pdf

cwinter 6y ago

Well if there was ever an appropriate time to plug my dark fantasy machine learning poem this is it: https://clemenswinter.com/2021/03/24/conjuring-a-codecraft-mind/ https://clemenswinter.com/2021/03/24/conjuring-a-codecraft-m...

souldeux 6y ago

I'm just here to make a joke about python dependency management.

dabreegster 6y ago

I wrote some of these back in college for a research-focused STEM group; not about the tech industry culture, but at least some comp sci bits: https://dabreegster.github.io/poetry/college/overheard_gdc.html https://dabreegster.github.io/poetry/college/overheard_gdc.h... https://dabreegster.github.io/poetry/college/abstractions.html https://dabreegster.github.io/poetry/college/abstractions.ht... https://dabreegster.github.io/poetry/college/discrete_event_simulation.html https://dabreegster.github.io/poetry/college/discrete_event_... (after a course in static analysis)

Mediterraneo10 6y ago

> This being HN... where are the poets writing about Silicon Valley See Vikram Seth's 1986 novel in verse The Golden Gate [0], which mentions a Silicon Valley in its relatively early years and even drops the terms RAM and ROM in the first lines. Stanislaw Lem wrote a poem about computers within The Cyberiad. [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Gate_(Seth_novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Gate_(Seth_novel) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cyberiad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cyberiad

cehrlich 6y ago

It's prose, but have you read Thomas Pynchon's "Bleeding Edge"?

rchase 6y ago

Gauloises Smoke Algorithms a different type of thinking Tonight mechanics of language ring like bells or machinery Or lust after longing Circuits cut on paper Writ on paper Walls of paper carefully positioned Nights and nights Missing it missing you missing. Time to close to end it and/or just hit Enter Smoke Algorithms Cigarettes Return