Mod up. For the love of god MOD UP.

There you have it. He tried to follow many lines of thinking to their logical conclusions while still telling a ripping yarn. Hard to do.

I had the exact epiphany, myself.

Heinlein had lots of ideas, many were great. Some were silly. Having consumed most of his books as a kid, I must say, they did me no harm.

Generally followed by "Can't you just ..."

Yeah, the search and replace got munged. Pretend there is a tab in the replace portion.

I do all my coding in vi. Generally "g/ /s///g" takes care of any white space problems, when importing folk code. I hated using curlies when I had to start using Perl/javascript/PHP, but I got used to them. It's just a mental flexibility thing. It sucks at first, but after a couple of days I have no trouble. One thing python has done for me vis. other languages is I don't nest. Generally, I have found if I have a big old stalactite of conditionals, that they can be replaced with a function call that simplifies the flow for other humans and my future self.

"talented cowboy" which quickly becomes "miserable sonovabitch" when you have to clean up after his horse.

http://xkcd.com/244/ ... and so on ad-infinitum.

I believe it.
That settles it.

http://www.thephoenixprinciple.com/blog/2013/01/sell-microsoft-now-game-over-ballmer-loses.html
Forbes has pulled it.

Sorry, first sentence should have been quoted.

I’ve read many eloquent eulogies from people who knew Aaron Swartz better than I did, but he was also a Foo and contributor to Open Government.
Have a missed something, here?

I found one to have my potentially ugly baby.

You had me right until the end. Well played!

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ruby/rails/is-a-ghetto I would have thought they'd gentrified by now.