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Comment by cluckindan | Hacker News Reader

Are you even a musician if you don’t have a goat farm?

How can someone call themselves a programmer when they don’t even mine for silicon!

For anyone that hasn't seen it yet, there's the YouTube channel "Primitive Technology", where a guy does this literally - in a jungle, with no tools apart from what he makes himself. He gets as far as smelting a tiny amount of iron.

I couldn't find an answer on google - how is a goat farm precursor for music? It's an activity that needs herding and shepherds started playing songs for fun? Or..? :o

Stringed instruments use goat or sheep intestines. And drums are from their skin (leather).

It's an old story about using a drum machine and feeling like it's not real music, replacing the synthesized samples with real drum samples, then getting rid of the machine playing the drums yourself, then making your own drums, then finally farming your own goats for leather to make drumheads out of.

> when they don’t even mine for silicon!

Knowing how to design a CPU is quite helpful.

  > How can someone call themselves a programmer when they don’t even mine for silicon!

To be fair, after three or four Tinder dates I realized that it was mostly silicon to be found there. It's not a stretch to say that a programmer going out on Tinder dates is mining for silicone!

So now we've got clankers catfishing human singles?

Silicon and silicone are two very different things...

It’s not sili-cone valley, you have to say sili-kawn.

Silicone Valley is in Southern California.

(The San Fernando Valley was central to the porn industry in the late 20th century.)

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