/prog/ - Why are programmers such pseudo-intellectuals?

Name: Anonymous 2014-01-21 6:21

I mean you don't see electronics engineers come up with some stupid social commentary about why a particular group of people aren't using a particular (albeit of extremely high quality) brand of tool.

Name: Anonymous 2014-01-21 6:22

Yes you do.

Name: Anonymous 2014-01-21 6:27

>>2
No I don't, you little bastard.

Name: Anonymous 2014-01-21 7:10

People argue all the time over which EDA tools are better. Which computer architectures are better. Verilog vs VHDL. Asynchronous vs synchronous logic. There's plenty of debate and social commentary on the debate.

Name: Anonymous 2014-01-21 14:19

Varilog a shit.

Name: Anonymous 2014-01-21 14:32

>>1
Programmers are in an industry in which you can learn by picking something up and playing with it. They tend to view the whole world that way after a while. They're probably about half right, which is a statement I will happily fail to support with evidence; but I think an average pseudo-intellectual programmer is probably better equipped than a normal person to deal with a new situation.

Now take this to /lounge/.

Name: Anonymous 2014-01-21 19:04

>>1
Why are electronics engineers (sic) such humourless bastards?

>>6

Programmers are in an industry in which you can learn by picking something up and playing with it.

*grabs dick*

Name: Anonymous 2014-01-21 22:10

>>7
Why are programmers a bunch of liberal (or libertarian, which is even worse) nutters?

Name: Anonymous 2014-01-21 22:30

>>8
Some of us are just plain (not american style) conservatives.

Name: Anonymous 2014-01-21 22:35

>>9
What the hell is a ``not american style'' conservative?

Name: Anonymous 2014-01-21 22:36

>>8
If you're stupid, you're a liberal. If you're evil, you're a conservative. If you're smart, you're a libertarian. Programmers lean towards the stupid/smart boundary, but not too much.

Name: Anonymous 2014-01-21 22:39

>>11
What if I'm a Genius?

Name: Anonymous 2014-01-21 22:43

>>10
Someone who respects things the way they are, understands why things are the way they are, and has some realistic ideas of what can be changed and why it should be change and is always aware of the loss ocurred during change. Someone who doesn't like wars and violence very much (too much change).

Name: Anonymous 2014-01-21 22:44

>>12
Then you're an anarchist.

Name: Anonymous 2014-01-21 22:46

>>14
No, anarchy is your ideal, but its definitely not what you'd practice or preach.

Name: Anonymous 2014-01-21 22:47

>>13

Someone who doesn't like wars and violence very much

So basically a version of fascism for literal faggots.

Someone who respects things the way they are, understands why things are the way they are

This arrogance is agitating. As if you know how things are or why things are that way or why they should (or be unchangeable) stay that way.

Name: >>15 2014-01-21 22:48

Says me, the conservative (who also thinks anarachy is ideal).

I don't think I'm a genius though I didn't mean to imply that :(

Name: Anonymous 2014-01-21 22:49

>>15
Just like genius.

Name: Anonymous 2014-01-21 22:49

>>16
Facism? No, WTF?

Name: Anonymous 2014-01-21 22:50

>>12
You come up with new, original, and superior economic and political systems because you're a Genius.

Name: Anonymous 2014-01-21 23:57

Anyone who is not a civil libertarian on the economic left is a fascist redneck retard.

Name: Anonymous 2014-01-22 0:04

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I'm not on the eocnomic left. I'm not a civil libertarian. I'm not a redneck. I'm not a fascist. I'm not a retard.

I also don't live in the USA.

The USA has the most retarded politics on the planet. It's a nation of completely clueless morons when it comes to anything concerning matters of the state and its realtionship to societly.

Please leave your country one time and go somewhere else and share your views. You will be met with extreme confusion or laughed at.

I have witnessed first hand Americans trying to discuss politics outside of America, to my great embarassment for them.

Name: Anonymous 2014-01-22 0:22

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I'm not on the eocnomic left. I'm not a civil libertarian. I'm not a redneck. I'm not a fascist. I'm not a retard.

That last one might not be true.

your country

Wrong bitch, I'm not a USAian. You should have taken the hint given that my position is quite rare in good old bipartisan USA (where practically everyone is either civil liberal (which is very often in contradiction with civil libertarianism) and on the economic left, or civil conservative (which for them means a diluted version of Judeo-Christian authoritarianism) on the rather extreme economic right).

The USA has the most retarded politics on the planet. It's a nation of completely clueless morons when it comes to anything concerning matters of the state and its realtionship (sic) to societly (sic).

I agree with you entirely, but probably for entirely different reasons (e.g. http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1527#comic ).

Name: Anonymous 2014-01-22 0:43

>>23
Nevertheless, you sound pretty USAian. Indstinguishable in fact.

Name: Anonymous 2014-01-22 0:46

>>24
Well, fuck you too.

Also this thread belongs on /lounge/.

Name: Anonymous 2014-01-22 1:43

>>11
That's so funny, I was just thinking, "Assholes or retards?"

Name: Anonymous 2014-01-22 9:46

>>26

"Assholes or retards?"

Wait, which is which?

Name: Anonymous 2014-01-22 16:09

>>27
Also funny, my next thought was that you could apply either to either wing. My initial thought was that, as >>11 said, the left is stupid and the right is evil. But there are pushy, self-interested liberal groups, and the bible belt isn't exactly known for its intellectual superiority. So maybe it's better to ask "Stupid assholes or retarded jerks?"

Name: Anonymous 2016-06-26 12:08

Check em

Name: Anonymous 2016-06-26 12:08

"Extreme answers indicate false answers or mental illness. So-called "normal" people tend to answer in the middle on many questions."

Name: Anonymous 2016-06-26 22:21

Question these dubs

Name: Anonymous 2016-06-26 23:45

This is not even reddit level, this thread is straight kindergarden politics. Guys, at least try to be pseudo-intellectual instead of just plain retarded.

Name: Anonymous 2016-06-27 5:28

>>8-11
If you still believe in left vs right you are bluepilled to the max. And to answer the original question, 99% of /b/rogrammers nowadays get into it because it's hip and trendy, as is liberalism. I'd say anyone who got into programming after 1997 is probably a normie hipster.

Name: Anonymous 2016-06-27 5:50

>>1
I've seen engineers fighting over multimeter brands.

Name: Anonymous 2016-06-27 8:55

>>34
I've heard the exact same kind of pretentious social commentary OP is complaining about with electronics engineers complaining about how programmers are stupid because they don't think in terms of muh semiconductors. yes, there are people out there for whom machine code is too high level.

Name: Anonymous 2016-06-27 10:05

Check em

Name: Anonymous 2016-06-28 4:54

Check em

Name: Anonymous 2016-06-28 14:38

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Name: Anonymous 2016-06-28 18:04

>>33
Nice dubs, but those people just want to app something and sell it for billions, the hip and trendy part is only there to differentiate them from the ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE crowd.

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Name: Anonymous 2016-06-30 11:59

Check em

Name: Anonymous 2016-06-30 14:59

Check em

Name: Anonymous 2016-07-01 20:53

>>11
" If you're smart, you're a libertarian."
Still haven't figured out have giving someone the freedom to pollute any amount of shit into the communal air works.... Some factory is deregulated and pollutes as much crap as it wants into the ozone, and no body cares, because the ozone cannot sue you for pollution. Figure this one out and then get back to us.

Name: Anonymous 2016-07-02 0:50

>>42
but they do that anyway

Name: Anonymous 2016-07-02 2:51

>>42
The free market sollves this because consumers just stop buying products from factories that polllute! problem solved

Name: Anonymous 2016-07-02 20:03

>>28
What if I'm stupid and evil?

Name: Anonymous 2016-07-03 3:30

>>44
So by this logic all Chinese companies would be bankrupt

Name: Anonymous 2016-07-03 8:55

>>46
Turns out that pollution doesn't count if it's on the other side of the globe.

Name: Anonymous 2016-07-03 13:38

>>47
your a fucking white male!

Name: Anonymous 2016-07-03 13:41

>>48
And proud of it.

Name: Anonymous 2016-07-05 7:05

>>47
your fucking a white male!

Name: Anonymous 2016-07-06 6:02

>>1
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intellect
ˈɪntəlɛkt/
noun
noun: intellect

the faculty of reasoning and understanding objectively, especially with regard to abstract matters.

pfft. Every good pseudo-intellectual knows about the pitfalls of pseudo-objectivism

Name: Anonymous 2016-07-06 7:03

It's totalitarial scientistic correctiveness gone mad

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