#249 - How It Feels To Learn Cookery in 10,000 BCE
in this analogy, just putting the raw meat in your mouth is PHP / use of salt rock considered harmful / I get tonnes of angry developers going 'but what if the tools you used to cook the meat changed every six weeks' as they construct more and more tortured analogies involving complicated rotisseries and meat repositories
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Og: OG WANT TO EAT MEAT. JUST PUT IN MOUTH, RIGHT?
Bearded caveman: NO! USE FIRE! COOK MEAT!
Og: FIRE HOT!
Og: HOW I NOT BURN HANDS?
Bearded caveman: USE POINTY STICK! OR USE HOT ROCK! OR KEEP FIRE IN BOX!
Og: TOO MANY CHOICES! HOW I PICK?
Bearded caveman: DUNNO.
Og: OK, MEAT ON FIRE! NOW EAT, RIGHT?
Bearded caveman: NO! WAIT! LET COOK! THEN ADD SALT ROCK AND FLAVOR LEAF!
Og: SO IN ORDER TO EAT MEAT, I NEED FIRE AND STICK AND WAIT AND ROCK AND LEAF?
Og: I JUST EAT MEAT RAW, STUPID.
Og: MMMF.
Man at laptop: AND THAT'S WHY I THINK THAT MODERN JAVASCRIPT IS TOO COMPLICATED.
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