Yeah you're all sitting here on /g/ but no tech office has nobody like you in this day and age. What the fuck is going on? When I got my CS degree in Ye Olden Times, it was full of straight up fucking computer nerds. Now the industry is basically chess club strivers and people who seem like they would've gone to law or med school in another time.Discuss this and its implications for the field. If this isn't your experience, tell us more about your work in case it helps someone.
>>108504370I'm not versed in school archetypes. What do you mean by "they've would've gone to law or med school in another time"
>>108504370>Why do no actual computer nerds work in tech anymore?HR are women, women hate nerds
>>108504423That they got stick up their ass and their collective iq is that of Lesotho
>>108504431trvke
>>108504432you are not smarter than your average lawyer or doctor, anon. that's a cope. when i started mine back in the late 90s there weren't actually that many nerds around. it was smart, normal people looking for good careers. they all did pretty well in the industry as well, but iirc most of them went into financial programming rather than tinkertrannyism.
>>108504370it turned out the nerds were actually just closeted furries and troons who aren't so closeted anymore
>>108504479I actually agree with this. It's more of a cultural difference than an intellectual difference, though I do think the cultural change has been for the worse.>>108504431HR were always women.>>108504423They spent their adolescence going to violin lessons and grooming their resumes rather than taking apart computers and getting into trouble online. Best way I can put it
>>108504512If Neumann were born today he'd be a porn addicted gooner drag queen
>>108504541>HR were always womenyes, but they didn't exist in tech before not so long ago
>>108504567Yeah that's true.>>108504512>>108504551No, we/they weren't fags back then either, on average. That's a somewhat recent development, though counterexamples exist.
>>108504541>They spent their adolescence going to violin lessons and grooming their resumes rather than taking apart computers and getting into trouble online. Best way I can put itYou're blind to the issue. That's just money. Parents with money send their kids to violin lessons. Poor kids get ignored and sit in front of the computer. It turned from a small field full of rejects to kids with money who only care about money. Its not rocket science.
>>108504370Get a better job. All my coworkers know Linux, and some have home servers.
>>108504370Nerds were a bottleneck because they were crucial to create and maintain the product, whereas everyone else was replacable. To combat this, you create tools that are easier to understand, teams that are much more resistant to collapse, and people that are much less prone to leave the company once things start to get boring, namely boring people.Computer nerds are being left alone now. Most are enjoying their neet bucks or working a trivial job where they can just be semi afk.Since there is no real world job hub left to call home, many just stay invisible.
>>108504370Because we can't pass the entry interview.>Vibe check>Culture check>Leetcode unrelated to your actual work>Pronouns checkThis kills the nerd
>>108504423i think he just means they're chad adjacent and not nerdsi've noticed this too, the stallmans of the world are much harder to come by these days
I got filtered by the office life like the expectations to hang out after work, go to dinner parties and christmas parties etc I just couldnt fake an interest in my colleagues like that because none of them were interesting people, and I likely wasn't an interesting person to them either
>>108504370because I made enough money to retire at 30, better question is why are you still working?
>>108504370man this has always been one of my biggest gripes with computer science. i thought i would be around people who play obscure video games and had autistic taste in anime, instead the vast majority of people in the field are just people from relatively well-off families who were smart enough to force their kids into this field since it's the current "thing".
>>108504541>They spent their adolescence going to violin lessons and grooming their resumes rather than taking apart computers and getting into trouble online. Best way I can put itdidn't even read this reply before I made this response: >>108505676I totally know what you mean anon. it's just middle or upper-middle class people who have "forced" their children into a successful field. none of them actually have any passion for tech, the most passionate among them have a passion for business.
>>108504370"actual computer nerds" are usually just gamers and are terrible at actually using or servicing computers for anything other than their OSR/Maple fix
Nobody wants me.
>>108504370Pure copium. I flashed firmware today at work, and I'm currently reading Bentley's second book, though it was written before most of you were born.
