Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic

— Clarke's Third Law
“Good programmers manage to get a lot done anyway. But often it requires practically an act of rebellion against the organizations that employ them. Perhaps it will help to understand that the way programmers behave is driven by the demands of the work they do. It’s not because they’re irresponsible that they work in long binges during which they blow off all other obligations, plunge straight into programming instead of writing specs first, and rewrite code that already works. It’s not because they’re unfriendly that they prefer to work alone, or growl at people who pop their head in the door to say hello. This apparently random collection of annoying habits has a single explanation: the power of holding a program in one’s head.”
—

Paul Graham on Holding a Program In One’s Head

Sidenote: this is exactly how I feel right now 

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“Working a real job is a win if you’re lazy, greedy, or unmotivated. If you’re average, you fit right in. And if you’re above average, the basic terms of employement and premise of the arrangement is against your interests”
— Scrottie on what consulting means to him
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“It’s ready for The Enterprise but not for The Defiant
”
— someone from #perl @ irc.freenode.net answering another guy if perl was ready for web development frameworks and how it compared to django and cake
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Attempted Magnicide!
Attempted Magnicide!

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“Los Chavistas son mas falsos que una cochinera con Feng-Shui”
— Thermopylae on a comment on this thread
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 I don’t like reggeton but this one really tells the truth about Castro and Chavez. Thanks Rangi for the link
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Protestas del dia de hoy contra el cierre de RCTV y en pro de la Libertad de Expresion. Tomada del PhotoStream de LuisCarlos.
Protestas del dia de hoy contra el cierre de RCTV y en pro de la Libertad de Expresion. Tomada del PhotoStream de LuisCarlos.

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“If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn’t we really be talking about plural realities?”
— Phillip K. Dick in How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later
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“wow, heroes has more sudden family surprises than a mexican soap opera”
— PenguinOfDoom in #twisted@freenode.net
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Libertad de Expresion - Vladimir Maiakovsky

La primera noche
ellos se acercan y cogen una flor
de nuestro jardín,
y no decimos nada.
La segunda noche
ya no se esconden
pisan las flores,
matan nuestro perro
y no decimos nada.
Hasta que un día
el más frágil de ellos
entra sólo en nuestra casa,
nos roba la luna, y
conociendo nuestro miedo
nos arranca la voz de la garganta.
Y porque no dijimos nada
ya no podemos decir nada
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“99.9999999999999% de mis clientes no saben que es una mac… piensan que es una hamburguesa”
— Romulo Rodriguez
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“

In short, if Microsoft is the new IBM, Google is the new Microsoft - the defining company of the industry.  Both Google and Microsoft are giant talent vacuum cleaners, hoovering up everyone with an IQ a few standard deviations above the norm.  Each has a Nietzschean will to power, a conviction of the rightness of its mission, and propensity to act in ways which are regarded as arrogant.

Since Google is no longer the hot new startup, those ambitious new startups are themselves trying to become the new Google.

It’s a giant game of musical chairs.

”
— Mitch Kapor on  Musical Chairs
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“DgramSize = size(Dgram),
case Dgram of
TTL:8, Proto:8, HdrChkSum:16,
SrcIP:32,
DestIP:32, RestDgram/binary» when HLen >= 5, 4*HLen =
OptsLen = 4*(HLen - ?IP_MIN_HDR_LEN),
= RestDgram,”
— The coolness of erlang, or how to parse an ipv4 packet
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Nerd Stigmata
Nerd Stigmata

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“Try to do anything radical, even a change of approach, and you can be in trouble with the Old Guard.  I know; I learned the hard way. This resistance to change was always part of the university character (and human nature!) because universities have been, for the greater part of their history, repositories of the Conventional Wisdom.”
— Dr. Mark Tarver on Hackers & Fighters
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