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So you'd tolerate your co-workers passive aggressive bullshit? The "don't touch my screen" thing is fine by me, but that mardy shit can fuck off, either say it or get out.

1) Fast turnover of stories 2) the 250ish limit means I can actually run out of reading and get back to working

“No Smoking. No Spitting. The MGT.”

Damn, now I want to take my pants off and smear my hands across your screen. Honestly, if you started getting up and walking away every time I came to your cube, I'd be there 3 tim…

I just pointed at your screen, did I leave a mark ?

If they are not an asshole "please don't touch my screen" is all you need to say.

You made the wrong choice, TLS would have changed your world. Now you're slumming it.

http://galleontrade.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/scol...

When all you had was the machine and some electricity you had to learn . Typing listings made me good at debugging. Basic with inline assembler, the sheer joy. javascript, keep it

a/v pfft, that was a signal generator and an oscilloscope when I was at school!

Duff now works at Pixar. But before that worked on http://9fans.net/ Plan9. Including the shell still in use today http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/rc best shell ever…

The Utah teapot is used in 3d demos because of it's topological properties, though it does make a cameo in Toy Story.

Fixing "Star In Their Eyes" with "an amazing response to our internet voting" to choose the winner. That was lulz

Opening port 0 on NT4 would lock up the machine, I wrote a script to do it to all the dial-up ISPs running NT at 18:03

Think about what happens when you break a client computer by accident, say accidentally pulling a molar when its plugged in but now it wont start up because the spike blew the mb, …

Arrays are not hashes

Blacks and their slavery shoulder chip, GET OVER IT Newsflash : "more Irish were sold as slaves to the American colonies and plantations from 1651 to 1660 than the total existing “…

I thought the story was going to be about the Federation Against Software Theft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_Against_Software_The...

The easiest way to read regexs is to learn the syntax!

Erik Jorgensen, he looks like a guy to spend a beer with, chatting about the latest Soapbox dancing baby videos. Had anyone even heard of this service?

I have no idea what your beef is, I think you have a stick up your ass about something. Why you think you're some sort of web "expert" is beyond me. A real expert wouldn't be using…

You want to make your way in the CS field? Simple. Calculate rough time of amnesia (hell, 10 years is plenty, probably 10 months is plenty), go to the dusty archives, dig out somet…

I'm going to follow you because that's my path too (though Digg was short lived). The process is known as "the September that never ends". Slashdot is a bit better now days though …

Wow effects one can only dream of, if you live in 1990. HTML is lame

I'll also anticipate the questions : Inferno is an operating system built using similar principles to Plan 9. Everything is a file and 9p is the glue (called Styx in Inferno). Howe…