New York Times, 15 January 2016:"Mike Hearn, a British computer programmer...."
I stopped reading right there. There is no such thing as a "British computer programmer". There are British people who imagine they could program computers. There are British people who write about computer programming as though they could do it in an imaginary world. There are British people who write about actual American computer programmers. And there are probably some British people who peck at keyboards in a futile attempt to write a computer program (and then after writing one page of code they give up and write a novel about their experiences as a "computer programmer").
Well, I AM a programmer, an AMERICAN living in AMERICA where real programming was invented and where Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Intel and every other top software and computer hardware company actually exists, not in a novel, but in real life.
What this prick reminds me of in no particular order:
Edsger W. Dijkstra, a pompous, self-important pendant paid by the Dutch government to write pompous papers about trivial algorithms Americans had already discovered and who probably wrote less than 200 lines of code in his whole life
SAP - the software originally written by American programming genius Robert Adams which was subsequently turned into the most unfunctional piece of bloatware in the world over the course of decades by a bunch of pompous German non-programming theorists and now serves, as far as I can see, to primarily allow large companies to pay $500 million a year so that they can use buzzwords like "service oriented architecture" in their annual reports.
Piers Morgan
Hugh Pickens, the British blogger who tries to inject his obnoxious socialist agenda into every technology subject he can think of, then pollute Slashdot with it
David Cameron after a lobotomy
the NATS computer system
Acorn Computer, the most defective and unusable piece of computer hardware ever invented which sat completely unused in some 100,000 schools in the UK and is now the subject of a bizarre Stalinesque conspiracy by British journalists to write it up as though "a generation of schoolkids grew up learning to program on it" which is a complete lie
the British guy I interviewed for a developer job who had a "Masters Degree in Computer Science" from the University of Leeds and scored 0 out of 10 on a written basic skills quiz with questions like "Convert the number 57 to hexadecimal"
every single British jerkoff who comes here telling us to how to run our country
You would think after the American Revolution these British assholes would get the message:
GET YOUR BODY THE HELL OUT OF OUR COUNTRY, YOUR FINGERS OUT OF OUR FORUMS, AND YOUR MOUTHS OUT OF OUR NEWSMEDIA and
STOP TRYING TO ACT LIKE YOU KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT OUR TECHNOLOGY
