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What primary operating system? I use whatever fits the bill at the moment, and I have enough computers to run 'em all. Operating systems are a tool. All problems are not nails.

3rd gen, my family is full of programmers.

19 years (a few months shy of 20) and I'm 23. I started with my dad's Commodore 64 and the BASIC reference manual. Flashing colors on the screen, followed by very simplistic text a…

Simply saying that they were wrong doesn't make it so. The original post had hard numbers. If you're going to say that those numbers were in error, I want to see the numbers that b…

0 days is about the time it would take to rank in the top 3 results for the keyword 'anonymous'. Other Interesting Tidbits for this keyword: 0 sites are already indexed. -1 is the …

0 days is about the time it would take to rank in the top 3 results for the keyword 'xkcd'. Other Interesting Tidbits for this keyword: 0 sites are already indexed. -1 is the avera…

Program more.

I saw this today and wished I'd heard about it sooner. I learned to program way back when I was 4, using PET BASIC. Why did great work in the community, really encouraging people t…

I'll second that. I find Objective-C nice to work with. The real issue is the lack of cross-platform compatibility (think Cocoa). The rest I write in C. That or a dynamic language.…

I used to receive the Sun-Chronicle. Pretty decent paper from what I remember, although it's been some years. I'll be interested to see if it works. An idea: what about using Hashc…

It's not that any one thing is bad. It's that lots of things are bad.

Good, cheap, fast. Pick two.

Why don't we pair program more often? From my own anecdotal experience, I feel as though the resulting code is more concise and contains fewer bugs. If programmers want to live up …

Steve Jobs' response irks me because he equates (by association) "freedom from porn" with "freedom from programs that steal your private data" and "Freedom programs that trash your…

Asking groups of people if they want something is generally a useless idea. It only tells you that some don't, some do, and others are undecided.

It was not always this way. Tides change.

I definitely recommend keeping sketchpads, graph paper, and a chalk/whiteboard around. It gives us a new mode of thinking in addition to plain old code.

This article really hits the mark. I wish more companies would adopt a pair programming discipline. My experience with it has been largely positive. It takes some getting used to, …

Hear, hear! I really dread sitting through this, because it makes me cringe and squirm and want to correct them. On the other hand, it teaches patience. Patience is worth a lot. Wh…

"From what I can tell, nothing is more frustrating to an engineer than a non-engineer asking for something complex, and treating it like it’s trivial." Yes, yes, and more yes. When…

This looks great! I'm going to give it a try. Edit : 30-second overview: I enabled automatic updates and sent in the requested anonymous system profile--but both are strictly optio…

While it's cool to note that Obama's involved in social media, his appearance in this essay seems a bit tenuous. Roger Caillois is repeatedly quoted and torn down again. His defini…

Your comment about taking a quick nap is really insightful. I have a little experience with this. From my parents, I acquired the habit of taking small naps. Riding as passenger in…

I commonly use file:// and other protocols. How will it handle those?