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> whinging and whining and spreading bullshit FUD I’m pretty sure that if Freud were present, he’d point out the rage you’re feeling right now isn’t really abo
by justin66 3y ago
> whinging and whining and spreading bullshit FUD
I’m pretty sure that if Freud were present, he’d point out the rage you’re feeling right now isn’t really about the thirty year old nerd satire book you’re commenting on, it’s about your relationship with your father.
- arp242 3y agoThe problem is that it's historical revisionism. It keeps getting posted on HN and taken serious (it was never intended as satire in the first place) and people think it somehow represents an accurate view of ... anything. It doesn't. But the less said about my father the better, so maybe shrug.
- justin66 3y agoI took it to be a satirical mishmash of end-user complaints and generalized bitching and moaning, pulled largely from a mailing list archive. Regarding the question of whether it was intended as satire, I'd observe that the copy I read so many years ago had a Unix barf bag pasted inside the back cover and I'm pretty sure the front cover featured the guy from Edvard Munch's The Scream. If it represents an accurate view of something, it represents the fact that Unix at the time had some really eminent end users who found the operating system to be a major pain in the ass. I mean, you can say "those guys should have loved it, they just didn't know what they were talking about," but I don't see the point of it. I guess what I'm saying is that nothing about the book demands to be taken too seriously, and if you see someone doing that, you aren't exactly obligated to also take it seriously (or take them seriously).