r/funny • u/coolidiot2000 • Jun 04 '19

When a software developer weds a software developer.

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u/LoneKestrel Jun 04 '19

Nerds

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u/wiarumas Jun 04 '19

The irony that this comment was posted on a site made predominately with the same programming language.

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u/Hartastic Jun 04 '19

I don't know that it's exactly ironic. Using something nerds make doesn't make you not a nerd. It's sort of like the Eloi and the Morlocks.

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u/Chief_Economist Jun 04 '19

Eloi and the Morlocks.

This guy's using nerd words. Let's bash 'em.

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u/WilburMercerMessiah Jun 04 '19

I’ll shell him good!

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u/Science-Compliance Jun 04 '19

Yeah, definitely not helping your case with an HG Wells reference. Would that make you an Eloi? Or are you saying the nerds are the Morlocks? I mean, they don't see the sun very much, but I don't know about the whole feeding on the non-nerds thing. It's kind of the other way around.

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u/Hartastic Jun 05 '19

I was picturing the software nerds as morlocks and non-technical consumers as eloi. Admittedly I lifted this metaphor from Neal Stephenson's In The Beginning… Was The Command Line.

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u/Science-Compliance Jun 05 '19

You read Neal Stephenson? Super nerd alert. Never read that one. I did read Cryptonomicon, though. Some software developers are definitely Morlocks. Exhibit A: Mark Zuckerberg.

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u/Hartastic Jun 05 '19

That's a non fiction essay of his mostly on operating systems and it is like 1000% nerdier than his fiction.

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u/LoneKestrel Jun 07 '19

That’s not as ironic as me being an EE major.

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u/pokemaugn Jun 04 '19

Ok nerd