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What does a programmer do besides talk in programming language? Most programmers would have trouble explaining what they do. Programming is a job filled with details, and keeping track of those details requires focus. Hours drift by and the code appears. You look up and there are all of those statements. If you don’t think [...]

For a long time I’ve avoided having a computer at home. I’m enough of a workaholic as it is that I reasoned that with a computer at home the small semblance of a life that I pretend to have would finally disappear.
Of course, this logic was completely faulty. Not having a computer at home didn’t [...]

When an archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull’s eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim, improve yourself.
— Gilbert Arland

If you want to start your own videoshop on the internet there are a few patents you should be aware of…

Some words, including walnut, walrus, and wampum, seem to have been assigned to Tolkien because of their particularly difficult etymologies. In the case of walrus, he wrote out many different versions of the etymology - six of which, remarkably, have survived in the archives thanks to Tolkien’s habit of recycling discarded slips by turning them [...]