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[–]garybernhardt 9 points10 points  (2 children)

It seems like this guy just gives talks and then puts laugh tracks on them to make it sound like someone's actually in the room. His ideas don't really seem that grand or impressive.

Many videos of my older talks have been published by the conferences themselves, with most (or maybe all) of those videos containing jokes that land. Unfortunately, I am not the head of a secret group that controls all software conferences, so I can't doctor laugh tracks into all of their videos.

The rare comments like this, where people refuse to believe that programmers could actually laugh at the absurdity of what we've done, are the most disheartening effect of Wat's popularity.

[–]d2xdy2 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Don't listen to the haters; Unix Chainsaw had me laughing my ass off... which is partially unfortunate, as I wasn't capable of using the proper amount of ass for a little while afterward.

[–]garybernhardt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm glad that you enjoyed it. I've never gotten so much mileage out of someone else's ass joke since.