What's the deal with old American programmers and..

Hawaiian shirts?

It's not a very well known fact, but the amount of fucks a person can give over the course of xir lifetime is limited, as all the fucks are produced during the fetus development. Very much like the eggs in women's ovaries, actually.

Now, our ancestors generally didn't run out of fucks until very late in their life (when it didn't matter, evolutionarily speaking), but programmers, you know. We are like the women who give birth to maternal twins because they produce eggs at twice the usual rate.

So those programmers you're talking about, they are well into their fucks menopause, so to speak.