The Code
In season one of The Wire Detective Bunk Moreland is discussing with a street banger named Omar why Omar plays the game the way he does. Omar admits to dirt, but brags “I ain’t never put my gun on nobody who wasn’t in the game.” To which Bunk replies, “A man must have a code.”
What’s your code? Hipsters wear shrink-wrapped tees proclaiming similar codes of conduct also emblazoned across the over-sized tees of video gamers, bragging (untruthfully) that all their lives exhibit the discipline and structure of certain sets of unbending, proven, canonized rules, distinguishing the strong from the weak and the right from the wrong; the pirate code, the samurai code, the soldier code, the athlete’s code, the gamer code, even the celebrity code. So what is your code, and what 5 rules, if you had to boil it down to a mere 5, mark (or should mark) a life that actually adhered to it?
Programmer’s Code
1. L33T 5P34K
2. “There are only 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those that don’t.”
3. ASCII Art \~/
4. Java, not coffee. C#, not music.
5. Linux > Windows > Apple.
I personally prefer Larry Wall’s virtues: Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris.
Evan living large by the Tweenager Code.
To me, having a code is like having a conscience. Some people can do things and not have any remorse for anything. There are others that feel for every action there is a reaction. Whether you are a thief, a policeman, teacher, student, or whatever the case maybe you have to be held accountable for everything that you do. Five steps of living a normal life in my opinion would be 1) be prepared for the consequences of your actions 2) know your limitations 3) know the lengths you would go to accomplish a goal 4) you have to be fair 5) honor what you say.
To me, having a code is like having a conscience. Some people can do things and not have any remorse for anything. There are others that feel for every action there is a reaction. Whether you are a thief, a policeman, teacher, student, or whatever the case maybe you have to be held accountable for everything that you do. Five steps of living a normal life in my opinion would be 1) be prepared for the consequences of your actions 2) know your limitations 3) know the lengths you would go to accomplish a goal 4) you have to be fair 5) honor what you say. What would you be willing to do to accomplish a goal?