Obsolescent Programmers

Thomas Seay entheogens at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 2 23:08:29 PST 2002


--- joanna bujes <joanna.bujes at ebay.sun.com> wrote: In the next revolution, it is more likely
> to be that you need
> the cooperation of the computer programmers. I'd
> say the chances were good.

And then there are those borderline autistic programmers...I have run into a few of those here in Silicon Valley. Once interviewed with an engineer who had made the transition to the computer industry after having been involved in developing weapons for the government. He went on and on about how "cool" it was to develop weapons. Now I had the idea that he was not particularly militaristic...He just liked to make things go "boom". I didn't take the job.

I dont know if he is still there, but on our Mountain View Campus there used to be a guy who was a Satanist and would come to work dressed like Anton Lavey. Haven't seen him recently. Maybe he cashed in his stock options during the "boom" and now spends his time invoking the Prince of Darkness.

Thomas

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