• yesman@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Tech in general has a huge boomer-humor problem in that all those old fucks that wrote the original code stuffed it full of puns, in-jokes, and idioms that are only relevant today in retirement homes in Ohio.

    And I don’t mean this is annoying or funny, but as a legitimate problem. It’s bad enough that you have to learn English to code, you also are disadvantaged for not sharing the culture with retirement age white dudes from America.

    It wouldn’t be so bad if it was good boomer humor, but remember, these are the guys who think “Linux Is Not uniX” is funny.

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      2 hours ago

      I disagree. Humor is humor, if it’s not funny to you, move on. I am not a boomer or American, but I like those silly little jokes that make a utilitarian and relatively dry industry somewhat entertaining.