I am amazed that so few people got this image reference, but then I remembered I am really frickin' old now https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ifd3ys/im_giving_away_half_my_wealth_to_make_the/

Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉

@codinghorror you look great Jeff!

gabboman the wafrn dev

I know the reference to an old william doors reference but yeah

#I-dont-know-if-he-was-using-an-altair-on-the-pic-tho #reminder-my-knowledge-should-not-bee-assumed-as-common #also-yeah-at-times-I-feel-old-but-that-is-life #unavoidable-time-flying

Jeff Atwood

@Migueldeicaza thank you very much https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0RTD7250II

Jeff Atwood

@gabboman hint hint gabboman.. let's go all the way back to version one point oh

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@codinghorror please please please don't turn out like him Jeff !

Jeff Atwood

@vampiress there are some really great books from that era, and that one I remember being excellent

Maarten

@codinghorror @gabboman ohhhh. I know that photo but it didn’t click for me.

Maarten

@codinghorror @gabboman also, LOL, I went to look for the AMA thinking you were doing one now. Bzzzzt!

Jeff Atwood

@vampiress to be clear, I am not anti UNIX. How could I be? It's literally unavoidable. What I think we should avoid is monocultures, because they're not survivable long term.

Jeff Atwood

@vampiress yeah BeOS was super cool but any time I hear "this is really complicated for programmers to figure out" I run for the nearest bunker..