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Show HN: The White Negro

1 pointsby wittysensealmost 12 years ago

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wittysensealmost 12 years ago
In the face of a growing culture that makes it wildly impossible for me to enjoy my life, with rigorous criticism and the only friend to be my Terminal and vim where I can type out, hundreds of times a day, things like &quot;$ jangyrun&quot; and &quot;$ git down master&quot;; in the face of speculation of psychosis due to use of the computer system; in the face of a heavily sexist technoculture and a &quot;Black&quot; culture to which I am expected to account for or justify, wherein it itself is ragingly sexist:<p>You win. I am crushed. I will wander these days, perchance sharing what little I know of front-end architecture, but beyond this, I can put forth nothing else. I expect many other developers to fold under the crushing weight of a country lacking any orchestration what-so-ever.<p>And my only lullaby is the dictum, from all of you, that I am &quot;always wrong.&quot; No wonder people stand aback, shocked, when I call myself an &quot;idiot&quot; or a &quot;moron.&quot; No wonder I seem crude and jaded to women, because when things do not work, they &quot;die&quot; or cumbersome, inelegant, &quot;programmer-talk&quot; is just &quot;more efficient&quot; or what have you; jargon files trapped in the insufficiently neuroplastic fabric-circuitry that is my constructed &quot;mind.&quot;<p>If my hands were not so fully alive, from these years of writing code, I would have absolutely nothing to live for. I thank this country for that. And yes, I realize that I am over-generalizing, and I am probably wrong. Or I need more clarity. Or I write too emotionally. Or I&#x27;m &quot;batshit.&quot; Even you call me a &quot;fool&quot; or go beyond the constraint of constructive criticism to inform me that &quot;dyslexia is a niche&quot; and therefore it is &quot;ugly&quot; -- that I am wasting my time.<p>You did not understand one of these sentences produced here. Of course you didn&#x27;t. With hope, the next simulation will be less cruel, or I will simply obey conceptual schemes which generally give us concepts like &quot;banned books&quot; or &quot;dangerous ideas.&quot;<p>I will leave you with this, and then I will cease to bother Your Technological Society: Quot capita tot sensus.