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Guys, you really have a problem if you find a piece of software sexy... I absolutely love software, software development, and everything about it, but WOMEN are
by Walkman 13y ago
Guys, you really have a problem if you find a piece of software sexy... I absolutely love software, software development, and everything about it, but WOMEN are sexy, NOT software!
Please don't degrade women with phrases like this!
- jambo 13y agoI'm going to assume that this is parody? Poe's law and all. I know folks of various genders who love & find emacs sexy.
- Walkman 13y agoNo, this is my honest opinion: if you find software sexy, you have a sirious problem. You should interact with people MUCH more.
- dag11 13y agoThe word 'sexy' in this context has nothing to do with sexuality. A definition of 'sexy' from Google: (informal) exciting; appealing. "I've climbed most of the really sexy west coast mountains" synonyms: exciting, stimulating, interesting, appealing, intriguing, slick, red-hot
- Walkman 13y agoI didn't knew about this, thanks!
- jambo 13y agoSorry, I got locked out of HN by NOPROCRAST shortly after you posted. Sorry I misread you. Cheers.
- bpeebles 13y agoMen can be sexy too.
- jbeja 13y agoAgree.
- jbeja 13y agoEmacs is sexy, smart, complex, kind, and he give me good fights and funny moments some times. Is the only man i ever need. And i love cheating my boyfriend with it! :p.
- ddoolin 13y agoIf you mean it using the literal definition of sexy then yes. That might be an issue. But I don't think they mean literally sexy (as in sexually attractive). Haven't you or a(nother) guy/person call a car sexy or something? Seems the same to me.
- Walkman 13y agoI obviously would'nt call anything else sexy but a women.
- klibertp 13y agoAre you a native English speaker? I remember being shocked when I learned that in English "sexy" has a popular meaning outside of sexual context. While I wouldn't use a (translation of) sexy in my native language in this context it seems that it's perfectly acceptable in English. That's actually what's hard when learning foreign languages - words which are similar to the ones you know, but with different semantics. It's even harder when the language you're learning is relatively similar to yours - it was a bigger problem for me to learn Russian than English for this reason.
- Walkman 13y agoNo, I'm not, and WOW, I didn't knew about that, I'm somewhat shocked also! :D I hit the dictionary and found that this word is also used for something "exciting". We never-ever use it in this context, there is no such thing in Hungarian language that anything else than woman or men is "sexy". That's why I read HN, to learn every day, thank you! p.s. It still feel strange to me naming a women and also a text editor sexy, so I will never use it, but now I understand, it might not be that stupid than I thought. :)
- agumonkey 13y agoLisp gave me so many nerdgasms that calling an elisp based system/editor sexy is not very far fetched.
- rquantz 13y agoIf you feel the need to tell other people what they can and can't find sexy, then you're the one with a problem.
- mildtrepidation 13y agoCall me crass, but when I'm in the functional mood, emacs puts out... er, outputs... and I don't even have to worry about side effects. Wait... that might have been contradictory.
- kayoone 13y agoits obviously not meant in the sexual attraction way, duh.
- ottonove 13y agoLol, how does this degrade women? Are you a feminist or just drunk? (Is there anything that won't degrade women these days?)
- Walkman 13y agoThis reaction came from my ignorance... Thank you for the enlightenment klibertp and dag11! Sorry if somebody felt offended by this!