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Re:Save your Cleverness by Hoff on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @01:20PM (#2383469)
That's a yak-null; a first-order yak-shave.

Building your own hardware to build your own assembler to create your compiler to build your own OS to allow you to build your own CAD system to create your own board layout and test tools to build your own processor to create an assembler to...

There's always room for a higher-order yak.

Re:Save your Cleverness by bitwize on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @03:59PM (#2384146)
Building your own hardware to build your own assembler to create your compiler to build your own OS to allow you to build your own CAD system to create your own board layout and test tools to build your own processor to create an assembler to...

You mean like Chuck Moore, the Chuck Norris of computing?

Re:Save your Cleverness by 1337p337 on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @07:33PM (#2385013)
You may have it backwards: Chuck Moore doesn't compute. He tells electrons where to go, and they take orders. Inside every computer built by Chuck Moore, there is only another computer built by Chuck Moore. Chuck Moore once built a zero-instruction chip that always produced the correct answer. According to a doctor that wished to remain anonymous, Chuck Moore has only two internal organs: a whiskey processing unit, and a NAND gate. Chuck Moore once traveled back in time just to convince Alan Turing that his computer didn't need any I/O devices besides a tape reader.

SCNR

Re:Save your Cleverness by m_myers on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @06:17PM (#2384755)
Chuck Moore written backwards is still Chuck Moore.