Being a programmer isn't about meetings or writing code or fixing bugs. It's about running a job in your terminal and watching IP addresses stream down the screen with a progress bar so that you feel like a sick hacker
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I really is exactly about writing code
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When I joined Bluesky a year ago, it only had 10,000 users. Now it has reached 6 million users. Good progress has been made.
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I used to do this because people would come up when I was analyzing code and ask me to do something because I “wasn’t busy,” but if you make one monitor look like the opening credits to The Matrix, people think you’re doing something super important.
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The old "Show Elon we're really busy with important stuff" ploy.
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Sshhh don't tell people
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Yeah, baby! 💻
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it's for sshing into a build server and reflexively saying "im in!"
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...well, that would explain how many times I was told "Works on my machine" over the course of my 15-year career as a software tester.
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Literally started data engineering without knowing what DE was 8-9 years ago so I could do all my work in a terminal and feel 1337
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are those your torrent peers for updating node_modules
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HE’S IN
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I turned my terminal black and green, ran top, then left the room. I came back to people huddled around my computer wondering which three letter agency I’d penetrated.
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Second monitor dedicated to a game of Uplink in the background
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📌
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Only reason I use Gentoo is to get that feeling.
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no lies detected
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gotta clickity-clack real fast then announce "I'm in!" with a flourish, to achieve full sick hacker feeling tho
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Pipe all the output into | hexdump -c
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Typical behaviour for managers who still think they are programmers ;-)
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This is how I feel when I open a command prompt and run my powershell script that routinely sends a scroll lock key stroke so Teams always shows me as active.
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TOO MANY SECRETS
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Lol
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`top` hacker
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Bonus points if you change the color of terminal to green
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piping tcpdump through one-liners ftw
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It's actually about cats.
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Here.bskysoci.al
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I thought it was about sword fights on office chairs in the hallway imgs.xkcd.com/comics/compi...
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Have to wear a hoody and sit in a dark room though. Or, you’re just faking it.
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Getting a holographic projector to beam 0s and 1s around my head like I’m some sorta Alfred Einstein.
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It's projecting across your face
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Pfft. People hacking is better form of entertainment. Need confirmation? Just ask ANY cat. 😼
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me any time I run npm i
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We can only strive to be as cool as Hacker Wolverine.
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The matrix screen
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Watching an enterprise system debug in realtime has a Matrix-like quality
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Jul 02, 2024 at 16:42 UTC
Did you whisper ‘I’m in’ ?
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Wait, what union do I have to join to get out of these dang meetings?!
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Paul at 3am after approving new changes to main.
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Make sure your terminal is themed with a sick font in green on a black background too, really adds to the swag
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„I hacked in the mainframe and extracted the key values of the data tables so we can…“
„Paul. Please. Stop. honey. You are the PBLLC“
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You mean it's not about hearing people talk about their cats in standup...
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Me, watching my laptop update from APT: "I'm in."
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occasionally gritty-growling under your breath im in
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hackerttyper.net type shit right here, which allows you to accomplish both while completing *nothing at all*
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It’s also about making pretty dashboards to show to the higher ups.
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Daily affirmation for Paul
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You're not a l33t hax0r unless you say "I'm In!" from under your dark hoodie.
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I used to hang out in IRC chats at work and my boss saw and thought I was "programming" so yeah let's just go with that
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