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I remember walking down the main street in my hometown on my way to drink at a bar and seeing saurik and some friends at a bars all with their laptops out and h
by dylanz 5y ago
I remember walking down the main street in my hometown on my way to drink at a bar and seeing saurik and some friends at a bars all with their laptops out and hacking on something. What caught my eye was a terminal open and a Vim session. I walked up and we all chatted for a bit. Back in the day you didn't run into that very often where we lived so it was pretty cool to see. That boosted my conviction for my choice of IDE and I started bringing my laptop out to the bars in the evenings as well. Years later my friend and I built a business and pretty much all the code was written in the evenings at one of those bars. You can be social and code at the same time it turns out, and coding prevented me from drinking too much while I was out. No real morale to the story, just an anecdote I wanted to share. That said, congrats on the bounty saurik!
- quickthrower2 5y agoWow the only time i have seen anything like that in a bar was the bar everyone went to after a functional programming conference! The only geeky things ive seen “in the wild” are swag (like AWS T-shirts)
- 4pkjai 5y agoIt's cool seeing people coding 'in the wild'. I was on a train in Sydney once, and I saw an older man writing some VBA for a Microsoft Access database. "What are you coding there?" "Oh, I'm writing an application to manage patients at my dental practice" "You're a dentist?" "Yup"
- phist_mcgee 5y agoI started my devops career path in 2017 by looking over the shoulder of a woman working on her laptop on the train. She had a tmux session on one side of the window, and a doc page open for something called kubernetes on the other. I googled it, and here I am now. Funny how it all works.