The GIS for Programmer Beard is surprisingly entertaining

Those look more like ZZ Top beards to me. I don't think you know what a hipster is.

Old software engineers are "hipsters" now?

DecemberNitro: Old software engineers are "hipsters" now?

"Hipster" is anything the person speaking doesn't like.

Programmers in their 60s are so with it

"Hipster beards" sounds like women in retro clothing attending functions with gay men.

Obvious and Obligatory

t3knomanser: DecemberNitro: Old software engineers are "hipsters" now?

"Hipster" is anything the person speaking doesn't like.

So much this, "Hipster" has become a buzzword like 'elitist' or 'socialism'; words that are said over and over again so often that they have lost their meaning and are now defined how the person using it sees fit, but in all cases, used only to provoke other people - probably the cheapest tactic for goating somebody in to an argument.

/it obviously worked on me

FTFA
Another exception that proves the rule? Grace Hopper, the brains behind Cobol, a seminal language that arrived in 1959 and is still used today. Apparently, if you're biologically incapable of growing a beard, the programming gods cut you some slack.

A geek in 1959? I'd be willing to bet she had a nice patch of hair growing someplace else.

A lot of famous computer scientists have Jewish heritage and growing a beard is part of being a man in Jewish culture. (John McCarthey's mother was Jewish).

See JEWS IN COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENCE.

I'm sure there are famous bearded non-Jewish computer scientists but that may come from trying to fit in with the scruffy/hippie and/or Jewish academic crowd.

I would bet that academic computer scientists are more bearded than corporate ones.

ZER0T0THEC0RE: t3knomanser: DecemberNitro: Old software engineers are "hipsters" now?

"Hipster" is anything the person speaking doesn't like.

So much this, "Hipster" has become a buzzword like 'elitist' or 'socialism'; words that are said over and over again so often that they have lost their meaning and are now defined how the person using it sees fit, but in all cases, used only to provoke other people - probably the cheapest tactic for goating somebody in to an argument.

/it obviously worked on me

And it guarantees a green light if you include hipster in the headline

Tremolo: Those look more like ZZ Top beards to me.

This came to mind immediately.

They aren't just a time traveling band, they are GODS of FORTRAN.

COBOL rules

Java sucks.

Wait, LISP is "successful"? Ugh. All those parenthesis make me blind.