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Great quote! - "Programmers are still stuck writing their incantations down in a way that devices made of elaborately etched metalloids — powered by lightning energy gained from harnessing the power of the wind, water, or, most commonly, motion itself via the liquified corpses of ancient beasts that used to dominate the earth — can understand and execute."
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The message was not indeed directly at you but more for new comers in the programming world. Just to remind them that without the hard work part, they'll end up doing small tricks at dinner. They can't expect to run the show in Vegas. And yes I feel very alike Gandalf some day, summoning intruders: you shall not pass!
Summoning intruders? That sounds like the last thing you'd want to summon!
I'm reminded of a scene from the Inheritance series of books that I read when I was younger. The main character, Eragon, was telling his mentor how he blessed an orphan baby with the magic words " Atra gülia un ilian tauthr ono un atra ono waíse skölir frá rauthr ". His mentor's response was "Wait what? Are you sure you said skölir , and not sköliro ?" Turns out while he had meant to say "May luck and happiness follo…
I read those when I was younger as well. I came away not a huge fan of the series because of the (in my opinion) poor writing and huge plot holes. Why didn't he just bless the kid with "May you be a killer of Galbatorix, and may no one else die in the process."
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Summoning intruders? That sounds like the last thing you'd want to summon!
Sure. Banning them indeed. For those interested in the why, in some language I speak everyday you could say something that would translate literally into "summoning someone to do or not to do something" as "summoning intruders not to enter". Thanks for pointing that out. :-)