https://www.wired.com/2012/06/beard-gallery/
Why do programmers wear the beard?
>>60010802
I am too lazy to shave.
>>60010802
they're big guys
>>60010928
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>>60011010
for you
Hide double chin.
Reddit social mimetic.
Insecurity about manliness or need to fit in virtual attention whoring """secret""" clubs such as no shave November
I'd like to add Unix wizardry cultural influence but the vast majority of these Starbucks/macbook air web devs "programmers" have no idea who Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie are and what they are known for.
>>60010802
Nobody in my office wears a beard, and very few in the company do, just the young hipsters.
>>60010928
Unix admin tier
>>60010802
It's mostly Amerifats. They do it to hide their triple chins
>>60010802
>>60010802
>Alan Kay, the creator of SmallTalk, a seminal language that suffered from a lack of chin hair.
smalltalk btfo
I'll never understand that beard. It only goes well with bald. I don't have any respect for these hipsters.
>>60010802
If they shaved it, would they die?
>>60010802
>Programmer
>Java
>PHP
>.com
>HTML5
JUST
>>60010802
>JAVA
>HTML5
>PHP
>IT
>Programmer
So this is the stereotypical codemonkey now?
>>60010928
this
Weak jaw enhancer.
>>60010802
Is it natural to feel an urge to harshly bully anyone who is like OP pic in real life?
>>60014872
No but it would be extremely mainstream.
>>60010802
Our religion encourages beard and also whats the point of trimming and shaving until you are going somewhere like wedding and stuff
>>60010802
It's a shelter for their semen
>>60010802
>hipster
>html5
>php
>.com
>programmer
yeah, sure
>>60011117
>I'm an angry geek who shaves
>>60010802
Nobody cared who they were until they grew the beard
>>60012820
About 3/4 of the developers in my office have beards
The men in other branches all shave
It's very meme
Too busy doing computer shit to worry about basic personal hygeine.
>>60013033
Americans literally created programming culture
I mean America is shit now but in the 60s and 70s things were still decent
>>60010928
this desu
>>60010802
Homosexuality. The hair around the mouth is used to mimic a vagina, thus luring any unsuspecting cocks, into it's stinky abyss.
>>60016793
This is accurate desu
>>60015544
Underrated