Tag Archives: Tech

Recently, I wrote about the glories of the Jargon File and remarked that the hacker jargon it records is often hilarious. It’s easy to burn up a couple of hours browsing around in it. Now Jeff Atwood over at Coding … Continue reading →

Fighting down my urge for a terse binary encoding and embracing s-expressions for network transport is helping a lot with development. — John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) March 17, 2015 For an wonderful and revealing example of using s-expressions for data interchange, … Continue reading →

A customer walks into a bar. He asks for a beer made out of wine. The project manager agrees. Both question the bartender's competence. — Daniel Méndez (@mendezfe) March 22, 2015

The New Yorker is celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the GNU manifesto with a nice article on RMS and his work on Free Software. All-in-all it’s a pretty good article considering that it’s appearing in a non-technical venue. They get … Continue reading →

Years ago, I had a printed copy of The Jargon File and spent many happy hours reading through it. If you haven’t browsed through the file, you should. It’s full of screamingly funny tidbits about our Hacker Culture and Language. … Continue reading →

I’ve written before that I’m rigorous about avoiding paper, pens, and pencils. I’m pretty good about doing everything digitally but nowhere near as good as these guys. Their feat is even more impressive when you realize that they’re doing it … Continue reading →

This is really a note to myself. The other day I needed to figure out what day of the year it was. I was pretty sure that the Unix date command could tell me but I couldn’t remember how to … Continue reading →

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