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Exactly bro! Now keep on rocking in the free world and understand that hubris alone does not a good programmer make but a good programmer is hubristic. Therefore hubris is a poor heuristic no matter what any tech bro tells you.

Therefore you should at least make an effort to dress up for an interview because you never know if it's your last chance to make any sort of impression.

And let your hubris shine that way instead of choosing the casual path that every other one will certainly choose.

Edit: of course this argument is lost on all the beautiful minds who spare no effort at shabby chic

An interview is nothing but a glorified prisoners dilemma aka cooperation dilemma.

Signalling that you're taking the path of least resistance aka snitching is hardly ingenious.

And you call yourself a software professional!

Bro, people don't have any opinions of their own they just pick them up along the way. Think about it.

No. Hubris is wearing a tshirt to an interview

I've worn these clothes every day for the past five years. That probably identifies me directly if you've worked with me

-> https://twitter.com/matthewwalther/status/128234456305575526...

Best clothing there ever has been for being a professional program writer, hands down.

"What a billionaire CEO is telling you when he shows up to a shareholder meeting in a hooded sweatshirt or athleisure wear that costs more than most people's mortgage is that your sense of dignity means nothing to him: he is above you no matter how both of you are dressed."

Could not have said it any better

Hey! Welcome to reach out to me, let's have a virtual cup of tea or coffee -- my email is on my profile page

I think I've scraped the bottom of the barrel of YouTube content and ads, the worst are these Japanese weight loss commercials.

How's your situation, are you still learning and pursuing your own journey? I can totally relate to the feeling of being out of work but I believe strongly that our work is a calling and we must listen to our intuition on the journey to mastery of our art.

-- Incumbency’s biggest drawbacks are lack of creativity, sloth, internecine politics and waste.

And an utter disregard for traditional business mores

Social and political are synonyms my dude but yes not all communication is political but all communication is social.

We have a far too narrow view of what constitutes social media.

Every medium is a social one if you think about it and every social medium is political.

The medium has and always will be the message and when you get to the core you understand the message is simply the audience.

Do you think "primitive" civilizations compared to ours didn't have social media before the advent of the tweet?

They were operating on levels we haven't even begun to understand in our foolish pride.

We're as primitive as we were at the invention of electric light and our technological advancements have outpaced our morality. We're just amplifying the hysteria and confusion with our automated algorithms and always-on engagement and now every poor schmuck has a voice where once it was limited to the elites. You should be grateful that Twitter has democratized the inane blatherings of the proletariat to drown out the voices of so called authority.

The article links to a demo on the BBC micro which is simply mindblowing - https://youtu.be/oK2D1EdFXMM

100%. The bank I used to work at had a part of the employee handbook dedicated to what happens if you're kidnapped. We're just being naive and casual as we are wont to do. Bro don't worry have another free granola bar.

And in fact one of the devs was poached by a shady bunch of foreign looking suits who would have fit right in with big brother.

In all fairness you have a split second between the light coming on and the video stream initializing to err hide your shame. What are you doing in front of your computer with no pants on? Naked yoga?

The irony of this is too much. The guy who pioneered privacy invasion as a philosophy is guarding his own privacy. He should have a Facebook live stream following him 24/7

No! It's all the knowledge we've amassed that we hardly put to any use beyond milking it for entitlements.

Who ever speaks about our duty to our fellow man and the giants whose shoulders we stand on?

I blame a lack of classical education on this performance based meritocracy that's become a runaway train with no ethical brakes.

Hey it's good of you to read the depraved rantings of a code lunatic. If I could tell you about my journey through software you'd maybe understand where I'm coming from.

No man! Truly heartfelt. Man I must be trapped in a sarcastic twilight zone everything I say comes out sounding snarky and vitriolic.

Ever considered that everyone is doing everything all wrong and you're just feeding into the frenzy?

That's where I've come as a professional. I couldn't give a fuck any more about anyone's problems and I've learned that it has everything to do with creating pathways for people to communicate.

People are difficult creatures and academia has made us into basket cases unable to tie our own shoelaces without help from someone who will evaluate us and dangle a carrot in front of us for the effort.

How about getting over yourself with your corporate lorem ipsum and use the technology at your disposal to fix this dumpster fire of a planet we've made for ourselves?

Exactly! Man. It's good of you to say so, and it's precisely it.

The standard signals are a shirt and tie, jacket and pocket square with other accessories.

Now we're on a different playing field with other less overt details and our vehicles have become our outerwear.

We've both got each other thinking a little. Fist bump to that!

That's mass consensus and if you want to roll with it who could possibly sway you?

I've come to a whole new understanding, as a computer scientist that signalling still matters and we just suck at it.

If you read the comment you wrote you may see that it casts all pre-computer people who actually dressed up in a very poor light and I'm sure some of them could set us straight on many things related to life skills.

I'm on my iPhone but you have a point we've become so meta sarcastic that in all honesty I meant 'kudos for itemizing all your grievances so clearly and succinctly' and it came off as condescending.

I always wonder, do people read messages in their own voice or the voice of the writer? It helps to have at least a measure of compassion.

Good of you to invest a few minutes of your day on clarifying that. I mean it with no hint of sarcasm but I can see if someone were struggling with a tough turd while reading it, it may come across much differently.

Edit: and by the way, all Stalinist gulags start with a petty quasi meritocratic bureaucracy and people just following orders and doing their assigned tasks.

Edit 2: the OP understood my meaning, I was referring to the barrage of downvotes. This past few days I've hit a great streak.

I appreciate the civility of your comment. My theory is that our technologies have made us weak and plunged us into a new dark age and we don't even know it yet.

I'd like to believe the HN crowd is only slightly more refined than the hoi polloi but yea.

Not one person in this thread is going to say "how to dress" that's how far we've come as a civilization.

Too slow is also a thing. They always seem to scroll the second you try to click on them. There's a neuroscience phenomenon whereby the mind fills in for the motion of the eyes, I forget what it's called but it was on HN a little while ago about how crazy the human brain really is.

I feel the same way about radar charts.

And I'll tell you one more thing. Everyone one of us is so quick to defend never judging a book by its cover. Yet we judge it by the words it contains? Why don't we look past the words as well in the same fashion?

There's this myth that brilliant people are supposed to be anti social, but only to a point? Look how antisocial I am, at least on the surface.

I'm actually using this forum as a testing ground for my fevered ideations. Any substantive meaning you may extract is all in your own mind.

I like to disguise my brilliance in a patina of filth so I can confuse literalists while evoking deeper thoughts in lateral thinkers.

Obviously I threw you off the scent by triggering your sensibilities.

But I'll have you know I've worked with PM's who had very distinct physical traits that attempted to buck the conventions. One woman worked exclusively in athleisure and halter tops, even in winter. Another guy had piercings all over his face and ears. This other nitwit wore the same exact orange hoodie abomination every single day for four months. My favorite is the guy who wore tiny golf shirts so I could see his underwear on top of his jeans. This is a grown man, with a beard! He should have gone into military service to learn something about personal grooming and had no place in the organization no matter how brilliant. His very presence was a sector stating "abandon hope all ye who enter here" as in you have zero chance of seeing a real client now get back to your coerced agile workflow.

These signals are impossible to ignore and reek of bougie decadence and cause people like me who want to invest their whole lives to something more than an unfair exchange of time for money to die a little inside and seek the comfort of strangers to air our grievances only to get downvoted, therefore reinforcing the trauma.

Plus I like to disguise my modesty in an utter lack of respect because this industry is a cockroach infested nest of groupthink if you ask me with everyone copying everyone's signals until only clones remain. Then we argue about diversity and scratch our heads as to why none of the girls want to play with us.

The reference to man boobs is in relation to grown men signalling like middleschoolers wearing printed T's from guardians of the galaxy and star trek while they get progressively more corpulent on a diet of chicken wings and lunch specials and pints of shock top. Oh and pizza. Always the dry pizza left over from those two pizza meetings.

Ha! You're too kind. To be honest I have been battling it out on social media trying to get the idea straight in my own head. This is the closest I've ever gotten. It's very kind of you to make the effort to read and reply to it. Hearing your voice means the world _curious_

My hero! Bro who is going to be the voice of reason in this crazy mixed up world? If I were an archaeologist in the future I'd start by reading all the most downvoted comments for sure!