alt Hacker News> I was fifteen minutes into writing some code by hand like a Neanderthal
Tell me this isn't classism. Tell me this kind of narrative isn't a new norm
> I was fifteen minutes into writing some code by hand like a Neanderthal
Tell me this isn't classism. Tell me this kind of narrative isn't a new norm
I can’t tell if you might be joking. If you are, the rest of this comment is irrelevant.
That general idiom is old and fairly widely used. There was a Seinfeld episode in 1997 in which Elaine talked about “…not lurching around like a caveman.”
If you’re objecting to criticism of writing code by hand, the phrase is almost invariably used in a self-deprecating way, acknowledging some inefficiency or old-fashioned behavior with comic hyperbole. It’s not criticizing people who write code by hand as such - the author is criticizing themselves for doing something the hard way.