Bill was openly against open source back in the '90s and early 2000s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents

I hate this fact that "java programmer" is considered by some people a different job than "C++ programmer". A good programmer should be able to learn a language in a month and become proficient in three months at most. Functional languages apart, all languages are more or less the same. It doesn't matter if your hammer has a red handle or a green one, as long as you know how to hammer.

Yep, fir example I work on medical diagnostic software and the amount of data you need to manage and render on screen smoothly is so huge that C++ is the most reasonable and common choice (even if not the only possible one). There are lots of fields where C++ is still king. And that's a shame, because it's a crock of a language.

This. You could simulate how a stomach works on atomic level, but you can't say that your simulation is digesting anything. A simulation is not a duplication.

Old GNU project manuals are VERY good. Bash and libc have incredibly detailed and clear manuals (in the form of info files, also available as pre-formatted PDF books). I think no one now writes documentation like that.

I'm using this tool http://www.ploodood.net/ I made some time ago to generate most of my passwords (o pass phrases). It spits out some words that looks like real words but are not. Stuff like "picurned lible shimen" or "inglequeggett". It's fun too :P

Self-interest is a consequence of every kind of evolution, simply because a non self-interested being tends to die (i.e. stop working) very soon.

Sadly all (or almost all) 2560*1440 monitors are 27". That's too big for my tastes; I find I have to move my head (and my neck) to look around the screen, and that is NOT good.

24" would be MUCH better.

Don't you talk with viruses when you catch a cold? I do, they're nice guys!

Same here. When I was a kid, I wanted to be like Egon.

Not novel indeed, I saw this more than twenty years ago on The Practice of Computer programming by Kernighan and Pike. Still funny, though.

This has always been one of my favorite algorithms. Saw it the first time many years ago on The Practice of Programming, by Kernighan and Pike. Always makes me laugh. You can use it to generate phrases or even psuedo-words that "sound like" any given real language. I use it to generate passwords that are easy to remember but cannot be found in any dictionary, of "fantasy names" for games. Have fun and plose some stilture on your cince! http://www.ploodood.net/

Title says it all. You have to remember your password, so you probably won't use a password like "afi9blm#20niv8__q4i".

Pseudo-words - i.e. words that you can read but are in no dictionary - are probably slightly better, but I wouldn't rely on passwords at all in the first place.

BTW if somwone is interested, this tool CAN generate readable pseudo-words like "foliticalling", "uppet" or "furvicially".

Subject says it all.

After reading this horror story I arrived to the conclusion that SSDs are not for me. I wonder if it's still true.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scale.html