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16367331 No.16367331 [Reply] [Original]

You NEETs ever read Flowers for Algernon?

https://web.archive.org/web/20140711171559/http://symbo1ics.com/blog/?p=1803

I'd ask the former NEETs, but they don't have the time.

>> No.16367351

>golden moment
Do they piss in my soda?

>> No.16367368

Personally I think the best part is near the end:

>[...] when I get home from work—which is a two hour commute each way (sorry, I can’t afford to live in downtown San Francisco)—I just feel like being mentally incapacitated. Occasionally I have a little spark of brilliance (relative, not absolute) that motivates me to write a short bit of code, but the code is never more than one or two hundred lines. It usually consists of some little trick.
[...]
>I find both my attention span when I read books, and my ability to comprehend them, has at least decimated.
[...]
>I wasn’t prepared to work. My mind wasn’t. Had I known the burden that an average (or above average) job would put forth, I might have re-evaluated my decision to rush off to stuff my bank account.

>>16367351
Wagies are monitored 24/7 while they're working, which makes them too docile for those kinds of pranks.

>> No.16367606

>>16367331
This kills the learn to code meme.

>> No.16367669

Yes I went to middle school

>> No.16367672

>>16367331
Yea it’s a good book. Short and written in a very unique style for the time.
I read it during my sci fi phase along with l am Legend, Hyperion by Dan Simmons and the entire Dune saga by frank herbert upto chapter house of dune.
Other notables are the Farseer trilogy by robin hobb.