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Pour One Out for Stack Overflow
The sunsetting of Jobs and Dev Stories is the passing of an era
What were the movies you watched growing up that defined your youth? If you are the typical tech geek, you might hear something from the sci-fi genre, superhero movies series, or horror flicks.
Then there were the movies that friends in my neighborhood in Brooklyn liked. For those of us in the inner city, that movie was Boyz in da Hood. It was a coming of age story of youths in South Central Los Angeles starring Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Laurence Fishburne. It was gritty, in your face, and felt like it was real.
With all that goes on in the movie, there was one short clip often overlooked. Right before the credits, Ice Cube pours out the contents of his drink on the ground as he walks away. This was symbolic of paying respects to one of the characters in the film that was killed.
This act of pouring out a drink for those that died would be popularized in culture by the rapper 2Pac. In his video for “Pour Out a Little Liquor”, you see 2Pac and others pouring out 40’s (bottles of malt liquor) over a grave. What most people don’t know was this had been done for thousands of years.
Sometimes known as the “pouring of libations’’, the first known evidence of this ritual was found in…
