{"id":1073,"date":"2008-03-30T09:15:19","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T14:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2008-03-30T09:15:19","modified_gmt":"2008-03-30T14:15:19","slug":"clothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/03\/30\/clothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Clothing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was re-reading Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon<\/em> again last night (for about the 5 millionth time) and I thought I’d share this lovely passage, which really, um, speaks<\/em> to me. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

“It is trite to observe that hackers don’t like fancy clothes. Avi has learned that good clothes can actually be comfortable – the slacks that go with a business suit, for example, are really much more comfortable than blue jeans. And he has spent enough time with hackers to obtain the insight that it is not wearing<\/em> suits that they object to, so much as getting them on<\/em>. Which includes not only the donning process per se but also picking them out, maintaining them, and worrying whether they are still in style – this last being especially difficult for men who wear suits once every five years.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So true, so true!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was re-reading Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon again last night (for about the 5 millionth time) and I thought I’d share this lovely passage, which really, um, speaks to me. \ud83d\ude09 “It is trite to observe that hackers don’t like fancy clothes. Avi has learned that good clothes can actually be comfortable – the slacks that… Continue reading Clothing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[130,132,131],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-books","tag-geeks","tag-hackers","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/simUj-clothing","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":211,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/08\/12\/great-hackers\/","url_meta":{"origin":1073,"position":0},"title":"Great Hackers","author":"Keith Survell","date":"August 12, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Explains why I don't know Java. 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I'm not trying to be pretentious here, I just\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "fun stuff"","block_context":{"text":"fun stuff","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/fun-stuff\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":208,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/08\/16\/computers-legos\/","url_meta":{"origin":1073,"position":3},"title":"Computers & Legos","author":"Keith Survell","date":"August 16, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Computer people (hackers) like me have a strong affinity for lego. I still have my lego collections at home; but legos today aren't the same; there's too many big custom pieces. Here's a quote from a favorite book of mine called \"Microserfs,\" by Douglas Coupland.","rel":"","context":"In "fun stuff"","block_context":{"text":"fun stuff","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/fun-stuff\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1554,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/12\/17\/nows-the-time-to-switch-to-firefox\/","url_meta":{"origin":1073,"position":4},"title":"Now’s the time to switch to Firefox","author":"Keith Survell","date":"December 17, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"A serious security flaw has been found in Internet Explorer - no big surprise there. But this one really IS serious - it was found by attackers before it was found by Microsoft. So exploits are already out there \"in the wild.\" (This BBC News story has more details.) 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