• cerement@slrpnk.net
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    2 years ago

    Hacker folklore that pays homage to ‘wizards’ and speaks of incantations and demons has too much psychological truthfulness about it to be entirely a joke.

    —The Jargon File (version 4.4.7)

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      Why do you think the most senior people, the ones who carved business logic out of raw Perl with their bare hands and a text editor, have beards?