any program that doesn't have a "view source" button or link is defective

a large Java conf, 1998

Rich Hickey is onstage demoing a lisp dev setup

his hacking gets more and more intense. he's jacked into a production server; he starts redefining functions on the fly, inspecting data as it flows thru functions

the audience is shocked and horrified but he continues typing, oblivious. an error occurs and he recovers from it in the repl

finally he sees their stunned silence

"guess you aren't ready for that yet" he responds impishly

"but your kids are gonna love it"

@joeyh interesting, so from your perspective the thing that's kept issues-in-git from catching on is the https://xkcd.com/927/ problem?

Two months into learning how the system worked so she could rewrite it, Rather realized she could get more done in a few hours of this undocumented Forth minicomputer system than she could in a week of hacking Fortran on big-iron mainframes. She quit her consulting job to work on the telescopes full-time and wrote the first Forth manual. Within a year she and Moore co-founded Forth, Inc.

An old master asked on the newsgroup: What is the best question a newbie can ask about Emacs?

The newbie answered: What is Emacs?

@hisham_hm @aeonofdiscord if you aren't already using https://github.com/rxi/lume it's a huge time saver

Are there any sci-fi stories in which quantum multiverse theory is used to improve or replace the implementation of speculative execution pipelines of CPUs?

@Gargron who are you going to believe, Assange or the stooges of the lucrative eye protection industry? https://mobile.twitter.com/hypatiadotca/status/899770997552828416