Brian Marick on Nostr: It’s funny that the Republicans are freaking out over who’s a Real Man. Growing ...
It’s funny that the Republicans are freaking out over who’s a Real Man. Growing up in Springfield Illinois in the ‘60s and ‘70s, it was obvious the defining characteristic of a real man is: good with tools. As I’m not good with physical tools, I have some insecurity about that. I displaced that into being good with programmer tools.
And an important component of being good with tools is improvisation, being good with balky, uncooperative tools. That is:
Real Men Use Emacs.
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