The only impression of programmers is plaid shirts? It's time to correct their name

Although heating is already in general use in the north in November, Shenzhen has just started to get cold in autumn. During these months, the Nanshan Science and Technology Park subway station, where the most programmers are located in Shenzhen, forms a beautiful "scenery". As soon as the subway arrives at the station, dozens of programmers in plaid shirts file out of the station. It is no exaggeration to say that on average, you can see three to four programmers in each carriage. The variety of plaids and the richness of "colors" dazzle the tourists who come to Shenzhen for vacation.

Young man, I can tell at first glance that you are an IT professional.

In fact, there is no local restriction on programmers' love of plaid shirts. Therefore, programmers in Shenzhen love plaid shirts so much. Programmers all over the country are like this. The phenomenon is particularly obvious in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen because they are the gathering places for programmers. Open their wardrobes, and you will see more than a dozen shirts hanging neatly. Even in the eyes of others, these clothes look the same. When the weather is a little warmer, they will alternate between red and black plaid shirts. When the weather gets colder, they will put on a jacket over the plaid shirt. The programmers' dressing aesthetic ends here.

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According to a programmer friend, there is a subtle consensus in the programmer community: if a programmer goes to meet a client and dresses too formally, the client will most likely mistake him for a novice with poor technical skills and cannot trust him. As a result, programmers often joke that their technical level is directly proportional to the number of plaids on their shirts.

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Even Silicon Valley, far across the ocean, cannot escape this fate. The fixed attire of these technical elites has long attracted the attention of the American people. It is usually a plaid shirt + hoodie + sneakers. They wear whatever is comfortable. Suit + tie? It doesn't exist. If you dress a little more formally that day, your colleagues will think you are going out on a date, or advise you: Buddy, don't be so wronged, wear something comfortable!

In fact, programmers earn more than most people

It is not difficult to understand why programmers are ridiculed. The most important factor is their clothing that does not match their income and social status.

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Looking through the salary statistics of various professions, IT practitioners are at the top. Everyone also has a consensus that the friend who became a programmer right after graduation has a higher starting salary than most of his peers, uses the latest electronic products, has a fever-level computer host, and plays the latest 3A masterpieces on Steam.

This is indeed the case. As senior technical personnel, most programmers in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou can earn more than 10,000 yuan a month. They are considered "tycoons" by many of their peers, and are no less likely to achieve class reversal than them. However, seeing this, many people will have a question: since programmers earn so much, but don't care much about their clothes, where do they spend their money?

Don’t guess the “romance” of programmers

If you think programmers' hobbies are all about writing code, then I can only say that you must have some misunderstanding, because programmers, as technology geeks, have a wide range of hobbies. For example, they buy digital products as soon as they are released, and they don't hesitate to spend money. If you look at their desks, you will see several screens hanging in all directions, one for typing code, one for social software and browsing the web, and another for watching movies. They can switch seamlessly at any time. There is nothing they can't do, except what you can't think of.

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The table is also filled with other digital equipment, including VR headsets, smart speakers, SLR cameras, etc. They are as exquisite and expensive as any girl's dressing table, and are full of futuristic sense.

Even when they get home from get off work, they are restless and tinker with some magical gadgets all day long. Some spend a lot of money to buy drones and go to remote places to test fly them on weekends; some love astronomy, and a few astronomical telescopes are the bridge between them and alien civilizations; some are obsessed with "aircraft carrier and spacecraft design", which is commonly known as model building...

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Programmers nowadays don’t sit at their desks and type code all day long. They often need to travel and take out their computers anytime and anywhere to fix bugs generated by the server. Therefore, they are also very picky in choosing laptops. Although different programmers have different needs, they all pursue high-end products without exception. In order to maximize the speed of coding and running virtual machines, they will choose Intel’s 8th-generation Core i7 processor + 8G memory + large-capacity solid-state configuration. Programmers even have high demands on CPUs, and i7 is needed for intensive calculations. Moreover, compared with the previous generation, the 8th-generation i7 has an overall performance improvement of up to 50%, and the graphics processing capability has also increased by 20%, which can easily assist programmers in their daily work.

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Programmers' computers also have many small common features that cannot be ignored, such as strong external expandability, because programmers also need to transfer various devices based on Thunderbolt 3 and USB interfaces when working, and quiet operation and good heat dissipation design are also hard indicators for programming computers. In addition, long battery life is also essential for long-term programming.

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In addition to performance, these computers also have high-end screen quality, with wide color gamut, high brightness, and matte IPS wide viewing angle display. Even if the office environment is chaotic, long-term programming will not cause eye fatigue. And if you pay attention, some programmers often have a large external monitor on their desks, which shows that they also have requirements for the size of the computer screen. The screen must be large to display more lines of code, and there is no need to drag horizontal scroll bars between two columns, which will be much more convenient to operate. Of course, it is more practical to directly choose a computer with good quality.

After talking about the programmers' "strange hobbies" and their passion for computers, let me praise them again. Although many netizens teased them with plaid shirts, the programmers surprisingly accepted this kind of good-natured teasing and even cooperated with people to make fun of themselves, which brought a lot of joy to everyone. After that, they still insisted on wearing casual and comfortable plaid shirts, with dark circles under their eyes, developing new software for tens of millions of users and fixing endless bugs, just like the punk hacker predecessors 30 years ago. This mentality is very admirable.

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