fictional interlude [actually completely fictional]

ANTICODING CONCENTRATION CAMP

the ex-coders were placed together in the 'computer dump' and forced
to whip each other with rubber hoses, each ex-coder equipped with a
rubber hose of their very own.

obedient workers were given shocking imagery such as kernel panics,
blue screens of death, and completely 'rm -rf /' command lines.

whenever the ex-coders considered coding, or refused to whip each
other with the rubber hoses, they were forcibly exposed to the
shocking imagery.

ex-coder 3: "oh my god i deleted all my files"
ex-coder 7: "oh no i have to join the linux mailing list how do i talk to them"
ex-coder 4: "i'm using windows again? did windows take over the world
again? omigod i'd rather be in a concentration camp!"

soon, the ex-coders learned to whip each other only when they tried to
code, seeing this as a harmful behavior. some would see the face of
bill gates or steve jobs or [oops i'm having amnesia as i try to think
of popular villains among hacking] flash onto the faces of their
friends, and rubberhose away, having been stirred into a brainwashed
violent frenzy by the experience, believing they were ridding the
planet of evil.

on the end of the enclosure was a set of doors. when sufficiently
trained, the ex-coders would first pass the doors emblazoned with the
great image of a penguin, and this would then open to a hell where
penguins were everywhere, and would torment them ...

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