Little boxes on the Laptop, Little boxes made of Javascript stacks, Little boxes on the Laptop, Little boxes all the same. There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one, And they're all made out of Javascript stacks And they all look just the same. And the developers in the industry All went to the IDEs, Where they were put in boxes And they came out all the same, And there's devOps and Rubyers, And micro services, And they're all made out of Javascript stacks And they all look just the same. And they all play on the GitHub And drink their Kool-aids dry, And they all have pretty syntax And the syntax go to HackNews, And the syntax get approval stamp And then to the IDEs, Where they are put in boxes And they come out all the same. And the bros go into business And marry and raise a VC round In boxes made of Javascript stacks And they all look just the same. There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one, And they're all made out of Javascript stacks And they all look just the same.
One of the consequences of refusing to drink the in vogue kool-aid is that you remain sober and take in the full brunt of the silliness going on around you. The technology industry overflows with such silliness, like any credible geek I spend too much time reading HackerNews even when I don't want to. One odd phenomenon I have observed over the past few years is the fact that there is a rather peculiar writing style in Silicon Valley, seemingly meant to make writing more efficient in conveying hype. Specifically, the desire to create emphasis when otherwise the point being made is prosaic has lead people in Silicon Valley to come up with this odd writing style where adverbs are deployed in ways that no decent writer would. Let's just say a good chunk of "influencers" in SV suffer from Hype-Nitis . I have gleefully collected a small sample of these gems on HackerNews over the past couple of years: atrociously bad crucially important astonishingly successful
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