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And they were born in 1999. We are dealing with a unique mind here.
by neilk 4y ago
And they were born in 1999. We are dealing with a unique mind here.
- KyeRussell 4y agoIn reality it’s like a kid listening to the beatles, but with computers. I’m a younger millennial that grew up entrenched in ‘hacker culture’ and even then there was a clear fetishisation of the good ol’ days.
- japanman425 4y agoLike people using eMacs or vim these days
- veltas 4y agoNot to start a flame war, but no, people use vim and Emacs because they're productive with them. I've certainly tried alternatives like vscode seriously and find I prefer vim.
- vanderZwan 4y agoArguably you need a bit of fetishization to get started with them though.
- samastur 4y agoOr just start early. I learned vi in Uni as part of our course and it's always there so I keep using it (but not solely).
- shadowgovt 4y agoIn my case, it was using Linux distros pre-vscode that got me into emacs. In that era, your choices for general-purpose developer-oriented file editor were (a) emacs, (b) vim, (c) something that was ported from another OS and either running in an emulator or running atop a library stack that barely worked on your architecture and would take like thirty seconds to boot up.
- efreak 4y agoOr nano/pico for the biggest, but there were other options available. Midnight commander has an editor, too.
- veltas 4y agovscode didn't exist when I learned vim, and Visual Studio was only on Windows, and I had seen demonstrated that people using vim seemed to be a lot faster manipulating and navigating code.
- concordDance 4y agoAmusingly, "they" is not one of the pronouns it prefers.
- scrollaway 4y ago“They” is a perfectly acceptable pronoun when you don’t know somebody’s gender, or preferences.
- _cenw 4y agoSure, but we do, half the thread is arguing about the validity of it(s) pronouns.
- taurath 4y agoFeels like a passing of the generational torch as elsewhere in the thread there’s large arguments about pronouns while younger people who are way past that are out here getting into wide open Jenkins servers for active airlines lol
- iamtedd 4y agoLove this take.
- 0cVlTeIATBs 4y agoDidn't know you could tell someone's age by their comments.
- concordDance 4y agoI think you're misunderstanding a few things, particularly the nature of commentary. People comment mostly when they think they have something topical to add that hasn't been said. And pronouns are something people feel much more able to have opinions on that doing scans for open servers. The vast vast vast majority of people of any age won't comment at all. Good rule of thumb: NEVER assume that the views of commentators are in any way representative.
- WXLCKNO 4y ago
- rsynnott 4y agoConsciously using retro design is very much a thing in industrial design, architecture, and so on; it only makes sense that it would come to websites, too (and indeed you'd expect younger people to be doing it; most retro _anything_ takes inspiration from a time period before the designer was around).