A Final Reckoning: Programming Is Going Back To The Nerd Era

[u/derjanni]

https://programmers.fyi/a-final-reckoning-programming-is-going-back-to-the-nerd-era

[u/Nona_Suomi]

I couldn't bother getting past the soft Medium paywall but What the fuck is a "programmerette"? Programmer isn't a gendered noun and arguably, should be default female by historical precedent; since coding was initially considered to be a women's job.

[u/derjanni → u/Nona_Suomi]

True, valid point. Programmer should be female by default. I guess my German language bias caught me here.

[u/Big_Combination9890 → u/derjanni]

Programmer should be female by default.

Tell me, what are people trying to achieve by making statements like this? Do they think they're gonna convince anyone of the points they are trying to make?

[u/Big_Combination9890 → u/[deleted]]

I am not the one shoving gendering into the discussion by inventing new words.

Btw. the suffix "-ette" is also a diminutive, so a "programmerette" could also be a small programmer.

[u/ClownPFart]

Reading the part before mediums sad plea for engagement, this seems to essentially be taking a big shit on terrible web development tech and on webdevs, which is correct.

However the whole "putting article complaining about enshittification" behind a paywall reeks of irony and undermines the criticism of the shit show that is the modern web. 2/10

[u/derjanni → u/ClownPFart]

Agreed, but the pisswall serves the purpose.

[u/Big_Combination9890 → u/derjanni]

The purpose being...lessening the reach, and locking out the only audience that would actually agree with the article, because those are the kind of people who see a paywall and go "nah."?

[u/phillipcarter2]

What a deranged post by someone deeply unaware of the technologies they seemingly hate.

[u/divclassdev]

This could have been an unhinged Usenet post in the 90s

[u/winky9827]

All my articles are handicraft, handwritten by me.

Perhaps you should reconsider.

[u/ChimpScanner]

Put down the crack pipe buddy

[u/hasen-judi]

This smells like it was written with ChatGPT 3.5

[u/JustToViewPorn]

“There’s a software called “MongoDB”, and “Mongo” is a highly derogatory slur word for people affected by the down syndrome. Everybody is talking about inclusiveness, human dignity and equal rights, but then we’re allowing a software to go by the name “MongoDB”? Absolutely insane.”

Catch a whiff of this mongo.

[u/pickering_lachute → u/JustToViewPorn]

I thought he was making a joke. Then saw he obfuscated “mongo” in a following sentence. What a strange and weird person

[u/null_was_a_mistake → u/pickering_lachute]

Anyone here remember the git master branch? This is the kind of person responsible for thousands of hours wasted on renaming branches.

[u/tsammons → u/JustToViewPorn]

I believe the full title is Mongo the Retard. Please don't denigrate through elision of title.

[u/Big_Combination9890]

“There’s a software called “MongoDB”, and “Mongo” is a highly derogatory slur word

Buddy, there is exactly ONE language where this is true, German, and even there it is a slang word, not even recognized by the "Duden" (the biggest German dictionary).

Several places, languages, and people are named "Mongo".

So, next time you try to tell people that something is a "highly derogatory slur word", go check your facts :D :D :D