Enjoyable list but I’m not sure the AlphaGo documentary counts as pop culture :).
It’s interesting how people talk about vi vs emacs, can’t remember ever meeting anyone who chose vi over vim, let alone enough people to make th at the debate.
I paused a bunch of times and I forget the details, but I remember everything always looking good, especially his brainstorming about the site and making notes about pgp and onion services and the like.
I also loved them knowing Lenny wrote some code, as he was the only person in the world who uses snake case in javascript, because I’m also a snake case heretic.
One of the great onscreen code moments was in Superman III¹ where Richard Pryors’ character has written some “impossible” program and when the listing is shown on screen it’s pretty much five screens of BASIC REM statements.
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1. A movie which exists primarily to set up a joke in Office Space.
More great on screen code moments (I haven't got round to Superman III, yet): https://behind-the-screens.tv But Superman III is not just REM statements.
It’s interesting how people talk about vi vs emacs, can’t remember ever meeting anyone who chose vi over vim, let alone enough people to make th at the debate.
I always whenever I see code on a show/movie I wonder if it's real, a lot of times it's a mix of random languages. Sometimes just jibberish.
Also recently watched Nirvana 1997 really good.
Also, we're really close to the 24 year anniversary of "Dilemma": https://hollawhenyougetthis.com
I also loved them knowing Lenny wrote some code, as he was the only person in the world who uses snake case in javascript, because I’m also a snake case heretic.
And sometimes it's just a directory listing.
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1. A movie which exists primarily to set up a joke in Office Space.
At risk of being downvoted into oblivion by the emacs gang, I wonder if someone’s got a similar theme for vim?