Must everything be a precisely aimed and politically correct
advertisement? Half the charm of the bit (as the bit it parodies) is
that it doesn't try to recruit, it just tries to reinforce the beliefs
of the believers! Who will say "I won't program in Racket because they
have sexist ads"? Far fewer
>What about?
>
>"People hang on his every line; but usually he needs just one."
>"He can write Lisp programs, in C."
>"He once had a seg fault, just to see how it feels."
>
>Stuff like that seems pretty easy to come up with.
It's fun - you should try it.
"He could disarm you with his macro expan
> Hi Matthias,
>
> Just one question: is the goal that we interpret the video ironically?
>
> I thought I would ask, so that someone from the team could explain what
> was
> intended with this script. My read, after watching it several times, and
> comparing it to videos about other novice programm
Greetings.
On 2012 Dec 20, at 02:52, Carl Eastlund wrote:
> It is a parody of the ads compiled here:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U18VkI0uDxE
That's useful to know, but might be a little opaque outside the US, if it's
based on an advert sequence shown only there. Without this clue, the v
On Dec 19, 2012 11:02 PM, "Matt Jadud" wrote:
> And, watching a bunch of the videos, they are funny because they are
*extremely* over the top. "He dates all the girls in the CS department"
isn't over-the-top, and just came across slightly skeezy.
I tend to agree. I was expecting a joke at this po
Many thanks to all who replied. I appreciate the clue-in.
I'd consider finding a way to indicate the source; given that I don't have
TV, I had no idea. (Or, if you prefer, it is a meme I haven't encountered
before.) Hence the reason I asked.
Given the lack of context, there was no way for me to k
It is a parody of the ads compiled here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U18VkI0uDxE
Carl Eastlund
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Matt Jadud wrote:
> Hi Matthias,
>
> Just one question: is the goal that we interpret the video ironically?
>
> I thought I would ask, so that someone from the t
Hi Matthias,
Just one question: is the goal that we interpret the video ironically?
I thought I would ask, so that someone from the team could explain what was
intended with this script. My read, after watching it several times, and
comparing it to videos about other novice programming environmen
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