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Generally the code production units that cost more are valued more.
by pokstad 3y ago
Generally the code production units that cost more are valued more.
- reactordev 3y agoYou should tell big blue that, see how that goes over.
- pokstad 3y agoWho is big blue?
- steve_mcdougall 3y ago[dead]
- ChainOfFools 3y ago> what is big blue I was hoping for flying cars, but as far as signs I am living in the future go, this will have to do
- x86_64Ubuntu 3y agoIBM
- kevindamm 3y agoThey're probably referring to IBM. It's an old term, but it checks out.
- jyunwai 3y agoThe term did come back a bit in 2014 with the great television series "Halt and Catch Fire." The metonymy of "Big Blue" was regularly used in the series (especially in the pilot) to describe IBM as a huge entity that a forcefully-made new division of a smaller company was competing against, to develop a personal computer in the 1980s. This scene in the pilot about a salesman trying to convince another company's executives to choose his products over IBM's describes the feeling behind the term very well: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XOR8mk0tLpc&t=65 https://youtube.com/watch?v=XOR8mk0tLpc&t=65
- stevenAthompson 3y agoI believe that Bill Joy famously once refered to it as the Big Blue Dinosaur (ala Barney). I think the more general term "Big Blue" came before "Dinosaur" was appended.
- throwaway15858 3y agoTHINK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_(slogan) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_(slogan)
- steelframe 3y agoMy first employer. Now get off my lawn.
- passwordoops 3y agoBefore I laugh out loud can you please specify who values them more?