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I'm sure it's deeply moving to read poetry when your program crashes in development. But when I'm trying to resolve a production issue and I have to waste brai

• Jetrel 12y ago
  "Come at me bro." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS1esgRV4Rc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS1esgRV4Rc I'm not by any means the guy who wrote that easter egg, but I'm in absolute solidarity with his sentiment. I don't want to be a Randian Ubermensh like Howard Roark, in a soviet world stripped of all artifice and caprice. The world needs to stay playful - and my world is software. Fun isn't optional; it's absolutely necessary for the human psyche - any description of a world without it is isomorphic to a prison or a hell. The price of fun is frivolity - one man's fun is another man's "stupid waste of time". There's no way around this; it's just the table ante we have to pay for having a non-spartan culture. Yes, the overhead cost sucks ... but the alternative has been proven to be much much worse.