I was wondering what professions I should keep tags on, just in case we have that talk about careers with my son-to-be... Being an expert on long-gone and "lost" data formats and collecting their respective tools just seems like a future relic (Oh, and we already keep terabytes of all those myriads of one-time-use programs and utilities we downloaded from 5 years ago, right?)

Wow, these guys are employing chaps across the world to do the job, when we built our autonomous android-based solution at a hackathon last year? Only sad fact, the community for whom we built the concept (schools here in Uganda mostly), never understood the idea... or we were not entrepreneurial enough to push it beyond the initial hacks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg4t3u8psQU&feature=share&list=PL9nqA7nxEPgsuV4Rfs0B-oN_O2pk_ddm4

(this was in 2012, at the Sanitation Hackathon, Kampala, Uganda).

Wire me a bitcoins or I wire the bits to your coins!

Your statistics makes the fallacy worse! Am optimistic more than 50% of /. has already tried some GA hacking in one way or another.

O my gosh! The sysadmin next door is an übergeek!

Sometimes I think of all the interface options pre-included with my OpenSuse, and I just smile...
KDE, GNOME, XFCE and LXDE
Don't give me any ribbons please...

Not been around a long time, but my journey goes something like:

WinXP > Mint 7 > Mint 9 > OpenSUSE 11.4 > Ubuntu (unity) > OpenSUSE 11.4 (personal) + OpenSUSE 12.1 (work) + No turning back!

I've noted how so many nerds here don't seem to show SuSe love, but as for me, SuSe is the only way I know I really got to fall heads-over-heels in love with the Tux + KDE rocks - I love waking up every morning to another experience of messing with High-Energy Distros involving plasma -- SO HOT!

and had to make the comment while reading...

As RMS's stuff is all GPL'ed, the thief has to obey the "copyleft" requirement, and as such, must be ready and willing to give out those same stolen items + any further contributions (e.g. any goodies placed in RMS's bag!) to anyone (including the authorities / RMS himself!). What a good sense of security GPL grants ;-)

I wish someone embarks on enhancing awesome classic console epics like hack, greed, etc Am not a heavy games player, but once in a while when plugged into a remote ssh session on a cloud, I open a session of a cli bsd-game to kill "darkspace" stress :-)

I generally find myself achieving more when I just play ambient or psychedelic music (think psydub) when coding or designing (actually, I can design with more engaging and lively music like trance / melodic hardstyle). But when I have to pick a book from my O'reilly collection or work my way through a technical blog, I prefer to just have the music either off, or just so low I hardly recognize it. But true, keeping the headphones on (whether with music or not), does help me. Gosh! I even put the phone's on when on commuter vehicles, just to keep other's rumblings out of my personal think-space.

At my current workplace (where I've been since early 2011), on my very first assignment which required knowledge of Python, my overseer and guide on the project was a girl called Diana, whose Python and use of Linux was so impressive at first I almost got shocked! I went on to learn a couple of things from her, though sooner than later, she had to start learn lots of things from me. Point is, there are some girls who've really picked the love for this craft, but in my opinion, they just don't get as obsessed with the machines, languages, shells etc as we boys do. Eventually (and sadly), I saw this girl get retired from her job as a programmer here, because of issues related to failure to meet the expected load! Girls, please push on... we need an Ada Lovelace every once in a while.

Didn't mind much whether this was so important a noble distraction in my lunch-time interval on /., but the ad that I was served? "New York Film Academy...Learn Filmmaking and Acting for Film..." Something just bit me in the...in regard to some crapy ai-engine behind serving these ads! Was it brute-force or not? An xxx-recipe would've sounded preferable...