Rose@piefed.social to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 2 months agoAncient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgotmedia.piefed.socialimagemessage-square22linkfedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up125arrow-down1imageAncient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgotmedia.piefed.socialRose@piefed.social to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square22linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarexxce2AAb@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoAh, from back when people still had critical thinking faculties in good working order.
minus-squarexxce2AAb@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·2 months agoThat’d be my parents who are dead and consequently not present, but thanks for bringing that up whilst completely stumping me with your eloquent, constructive and incisive counterargument that in no way proves my point.
minus-squarePhoeniqz@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month ago“back when people still were <good behaviour>” is kinda the most boomer-ish thing you can say tho
minus-squarexxce2AAb@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 month agoGreat. Then it’s a good thing we were talking about critical thinking, not behavior - or reading comprehension.
minus-squareraman_klogius@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoBack when tech is still dominated by hippies and not fascists.
minus-squareGrabtharsHammer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoI have bad news about IBM’s past as regards fascists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
minus-squareFrezik@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoThat’s not how you would describe IBM at any point in its existence.
minus-squarethinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 months agoThis is as good an excuse as any to break out the ol’ IBM corporate songbook Tech has always been suits at the top, hippies at best an annoying necessity because they know how to actually operate the machine.
minus-squareFrezik@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months ago“Back in the day”, IBM was all suits the entire way up and down the ladder. They were considered the company for 1960/70s button down dress code. The hippie types were at MIT hacking on DEC machines.
Ah, from back when people still had critical thinking faculties in good working order.
ok boomer
That’d be my parents who are dead and consequently not present, but thanks for bringing that up whilst completely stumping me with your eloquent, constructive and incisive counterargument that in no way proves my point.
“back when people still were <good behaviour>” is kinda the most boomer-ish thing you can say tho
Great. Then it’s a good thing we were talking about critical thinking, not behavior - or reading comprehension.
Back when tech is still dominated by hippies and not fascists.
I have bad news about IBM’s past as regards fascists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
That’s not how you would describe IBM at any point in its existence.
This is as good an excuse as any to break out the ol’ IBM corporate songbook
Tech has always been suits at the top, hippies at best an annoying necessity because they know how to actually operate the machine.
“Back in the day”, IBM was all suits the entire way up and down the ladder. They were considered the company for 1960/70s button down dress code.
The hippie types were at MIT hacking on DEC machines.