Rose@piefed.social to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 1 month agoAncient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgotmedia.piefed.socialimagemessage-square22linkfedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up123arrow-down1imageAncient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgotmedia.piefed.socialRose@piefed.social to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square22linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarexxce2AAb@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoAh, from back when people still had critical thinking faculties in good working order.
minus-squarexxce2AAb@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·1 month 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-up1·10 days ago“back when people still were <good behaviour>” is kinda the most boomer-ish thing you can say tho
minus-squarexxce2AAb@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 days agoGreat. Then it’s a good thing we were talking about critical thinking, not behavior - or reading comprehension.
minus-squareraman_klogius@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoBack when tech is still dominated by hippies and not fascists.
minus-squareGrabtharsHammer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoI have bad news about IBM’s past as regards fascists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
minus-squarethinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 month 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-up2·1 month 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.
minus-squareFrezik@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoThat’s not how you would describe IBM at any point in its existence.
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
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.
That’s not how you would describe IBM at any point in its existence.