With micropayments, won't people feel nickeled and dimed (or fractions thereof)?

I wouldn't want to pay fractions of a penny to read a blog post. But if the writer is any good and authors a book, I might buy the book. In the case of Joel Spolsky, I did exactly that.

Similarly, I wouldn't want to pay fractions of a penny each time I used a web app. But I have purchased shareware / donationware.

She called the local news because Dell said it was too late for her to change from Ubuntu back to Windows. She wasn't asking for tech support from the news station; she was asking the news station to mediate the dispute, which is a pretty common request.

My thoughts exactly. ints can be chars, you can do pointer arithmetic, you can rotate and mask bits, drop to machine language, etc. And yes, it takes discipline to keep things neat and orderly.

Python can be a bit more restrictive than C in that space matters. But you don't need to declare specific types.

Oh well, the article was all in fun anyway.