BlasDeLezo

"""Programming as a profession is only moderately interesting. It can be a good job, but you could make about the same money and be happier running a fast food joint. You’re much better off using code as your secret weapon in another profession.

People who can code in the world of technology companies are a dime a dozen and get no respect. People who can code in biology, medicine, government, sociology, physics, history, and mathematics are respected and can do amazing things to advance those disciplines."""

Zed Shaw. Advice from an Old Programmer. Final chapter of "Learn Python the Hard Way"

Don Quijote de la Mancha

I've got a couple Teenage Engineering Pocket Operators laying around and from time to time I play with them. Also I love simple online games like ISS Docking Sim, 3D Bosconian or ASCIIcker. https://iss-sim.spacex.com/ http://nolannicholson.com/bosco-3d/ http://asciicker.com/y6/

"There's no such thing as a dragon" by Jack Kent. It's a short story written for children with a very good message for all ages. Here's a very young Dr. Jordan B. Peterson going through it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J54FMA895OA

It's amazing that they not only wrote a very cool book but also managed to get Jason Statham to advertise it

These pesky australians...

He's still around and kicking https://iquilezles.org

A Computer Called LEO, by Georgina Ferry. This book tells the story of how Lyons teashops created LEO, the first business computer. It also tells the story of early computing, from the Difference Engine of Charles Babbage to the codecracking computers at Bletchley Park and the ENIAC in the US, and the story of postwar British computer business.

He forgot to mention "Divorce for Dummies"

now go up for tenure

Yes. They do that.

Jack Stratton's Vulfpeck 2018 “To understand their artist payout, you need a new currency. I call it the ‘The Pity.’ There are a hundred pennies in a dollar and a hundred pitties in a penny. On a given play the artist will make about 60 pitties and that rate seems to be dropping”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB1sTH7bUQ4

Delete the message and go on. There's one thing that's worse. When nobody contacts you at all.

"No retirement plan survives first contact with the divorce lawyer" This applies to Greenspun as much as anybody else.

My ereader

The brits always coming up with these funny workplace examples always from the PIGS countries, and no way to comment them. Here's a pedophile english teacher detained just today in Madrid, Spain, he sexually abused 36 minors. https://elpais.com/espana/madrid/2021-04-23/detenido-un-prof...

It's wonderful the BBC always coming up with these funny workplace examples always from the PIGS countries, and no way to comment them. Here's a pedophile english teacher detained just today in Madrid, Spain, he sexually abused 36 minors. https://elpais.com/espana/madrid/2021-04-23/detenido-un-prof...

Qunt

I lost 50 Euros once. I was very upset all day.

If you are starting from scratch I wouldn't advise it, it's a highly specialised, ever changing field. On the bright side, a very rewarding path is to pick up a scripting language (any) and start automating the tasks around you. For example networks, load balancers, IPAMs, databases, monitoring tools... everything has an API you can "attack", extract info, configure and start making an inmediate impact in your field.

I would've agreed too

Well, he can't complaint

I smell bullshit

I think I'll pass, thanks

Michael was interviewed by Susan Lammers in her "Programmers at work" (Microsoft Press, 1986). They had a very funny, insightful conversation about music, films and tech. Very sad news indeed. My condolences to the family.

Rick Dakan's "Geek Mafia" trilogy