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ESR: “Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch.”

My experience in going from C to C++ was different: if you’re not converting everything from mallocs with custom addressing systems to the collections framework, you’re not living.

They named the bill wrong - it should be Kids’ Act for Online Safety- KAOS.

Try to train a human comedian to make jokes without ever allowing him to hear another comedian’s jokes, never watching a movie, never reading a book or magazine, never watching a TV show. I expect the jokes would be pretty weak.

When I want to see a broken mod, I just surf over to Reddit.

This is what I call a ‘pro grammer move.’

sccs, rcs, cvs… after that it’s a blur of new systems every year or two

Yowch, Django was 20 years ago? That hurts.

https://youtu.be/oikCkGFK1bk?si=iSGjmhxYXN6OfLEv

Nothing more permanent than a temporary solution.

Nice seeing Mathematica and Lisp mentioned. I feel like Marvin the Martian after reading.

M-x dunnet

Runs Colossal Cave Adventure in emacs. “YOU ARE STANDING AT THE END OF A ROAD BEFORE A SMALL BRICK BUILDING.”

Jessica went nuclear when they did that. It was inspirational and the FCC’s website got the “hug of death” for at least hours.

I adore the energy behind these comments.

Mandatory alt-text.

There was a time when I had to switch back and forth between Fortran90 and C several times a day, and it messed me up so bad that doing simple tasks like counting apples at the grocery gave me anxiety.

I’d go PostScript, since it’s Turing-complete.

Bad variable names and then awful “temporary” log lines… I feel attacked this morning. ;)

I have never had any patience with variable names when I realize I have to do a 3-way swap: c=a, a=b, b=c. I’m sure there’s 40 years of goddamit=a and fml=a in the wake I’ve left behind me.

Why is there a picture of Margaret Cho?