Comment by andai
Comment by andai a year ago
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."
Comment by andai a year ago
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."
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"
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."
To be fair, he may have been a dwarf and had a natural edge.
I would have assumed he was a UNIX system administrator. Everybody knows that only guys with enormous beards can properly tame a UNIX system.