Comment by andai

Comment by andai a year ago

18 replies

My first day at computer science I saw a guy with a huge beard playing Dwarf Fortress, and I was like "oh crap, he's like ten times smarter than me."

Ozarkian a year ago

I would have assumed he was a UNIX system administrator. Everybody knows that only guys with enormous beards can properly tame a UNIX system.

  • 0xEF a year ago

    And girls trapped in dinosaur theme parks, let's not forget

    • knodi123 a year ago

      That was the exception that proves the rule.

      • dwattttt a year ago

        Because the phrase has always bothered me: this means something other than what it's commonly understood to nowadays.

        An older use of the word "prove", as in to test, means it says "that's an exception that tests the rule, and finds it is incorrect"

      • underlipton a year ago

        You don't know enough transfem furries.

        • immibis a year ago

          They run the Internet, and so do Unix systems - I know this. So it wouldn't be that strange of a coincidence.

  • ahazred8ta a year ago

    Cory Doctrow mentioned "one graybeard (literally -- he had a Unix beard of great rattiness and gravitas) who had no fewer than seven devices on his belt, including a line tester and a GPS."