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Golden Boy
GOLDEN BOY さすらいのお勉強野郎
1995 · TV series · 30 min episodes · 1 season
Kintaro Oe is a 25-year-old boy who left Tokyo University and now lives a simple life, traveling by bicycle to learn everything he can about the world.
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I saw this in Golden Boy episode 1 [NSFW] - where the protagonist used a piece of paper with a keyboard drawn on it.
<spoiler> In the end, he was able to develop one of the most robust operating systems ever seen in that universe, in a matter of days. </spoiler>
I guess the reality you live in where you can somehow develop an app without money is different from mine. There is absolutely a digital divide in many different aspects of this computing ecosystem, and that's not a reason not to adopt and utilize great technologies that provide transparency and decentralization to the end user.
Frankly, the anti hacker sentiment I'm seeing lately on HN is unbecoming of the hacker way. Let's try things, break them, try again, and perfect them.
There's no reason to see the glass half empty on every amazing new occasion.
Tangent, but the first episode of Golden Boy has a number of almost-but-not-quite realistic contemporary 1995 computer details, including this weirdly garbled rc script:
https://youtu.be/R7jXJ1UfOvo?t=1195
(i should note that while this is a terrible but entertaining lightweight comedy anime, as wikipedia puts it, "while the OVA is not strictly a hentai animation", it might not be something to watch in the office)