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This is an outstanding audio essay on the state of copyright in America: http://www.negativland.com/news/?page_id=16

I was going to say this too. You can download the bits and play with them. Its impressive that its all actually implemented/documented.

The jokes are still relevant. Q: How many Prolog developers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: No

And of course, all developers should be familiar with U+F8D0 through U+F8FF.

My good friend's dad did one of these when we was in his fifties. You are typically allowed to have people pace you (run along with you), so my friend ran with his dad from the 60 …

Second on Coding the Wheel.

Main reason I am not an architect: I favor Judging to Perceiving.

This is off topic, but if you are teaching (or learning) OO, designing an object model for Monopoly is a great project.

"I write software" is typically where I start and if the other person wants more information we can go down the rabbit hole from there. Funny story though, my wife and I are friend…

"Erlang is trendy Haskell is not." What!? You must not visit reddit.

The people who I work with whom I regard as great hackers work almost exclusively in the real time embedded space (industrial automation systems) and don't have web notoriety. Slig…

"We haven't met a single great hacker that relied on an IDE, although we hear they exist." The implication here is completely in the negative. Further, it's like saying "If you wan…

- Type fast - Use Linux - Use TextMate/VI/emacs - Don't read documentation Sounds like "Core competencies of ruby on rails hackers"

Agreed. Typing speed is very important when writing new features, but reading and comprehension speed is much more important for when you are fixing bugs in a multimillion line cod…

I used to, but its been just over a decade now. For me the creative effects were never realized. It just made me dumb. After my first year at university my average mark was 2.9. Th…

I thought they went to tape to avoid the popping.

Things Ruby isn't concerned with that people typically have problems with in C++: - No compiling or linking phase in Ruby. Linking problems can be hairy in large systems. - Header …

Entrenchment. The main product I work on is 3.5 million lines of C++, built with MCF and ATL. We can frankestein other technologies into there, but its expensive and clunky. The co…