@TimToady

Yes, that Larry Wall.

 California, on average
Joined August 2009
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anocelot@anocelot27 Apr 2022
I clearly hear all these sound effects in my head.
Randall Munroe
@xkcd27 Apr 2022
Lightsabers xkcd.com/2612
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DEV Community
@ThePracticalDev14 Aug 2016
The popular approach
Hoping Nobody Hacks You: Security by optimism and prayer

ALT Hoping Nobody Hacks You: Security by optimism and prayer

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Jesse Vincent@obra5 Dec 2016
My ID bracelet for the NICU describes our son as a "0 day" This is not how I expected to get pwned. But it probably should've been.
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Exactly this. We need to channel Molly Ivins now. – at San Francisco, CA
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Bad Dataviz: This map of every pub in the UK is super helpful. via /r/dataisugly ift.tt/2gEZghD
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The last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series, Real Estate developer Donald Trump was running for President of the USA.
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Presented without comment. @stahnma #devopsdays
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In a relatively short time we've taken a system built to resist destruction by nuclear weapons and made it vulnerable to toasters.
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Thairu@thairu21 Oct 2016
Trump: We need to take down the DNS Hackers: Da. On it Trump: *DNC! Make Autocorrect Great Again
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Ricardo SIGNES@rjbs20 Oct 2016
The Nintendo Switch reveal is a tale of troubling addiction. youtube.com/watch?v=f5uik5fg…
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Nintendo's Super Mario Bros #copyright for the coin sound (1985). xitter.cf/HistoricalPics/status/…
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The larger the sample size the more trustworthy the data, because the Ns justify the means.
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My new hobby: finding incomprehensible diagrams on office whiteboards and adding alarming conclusions to them
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Jesse Vincent@obra1 Oct 2016
You all made fun of Perl 6's Unicode operators. And then you embraced emoji. Who's laughing now?
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Marc Benioff
@Benioff29 Sep 2016
The President needs to intuitively understand the world & its complex leadership. @GovGaryJohnson has to exit. xitter.cf/msnbc/status/781278922…
MS NOW
@MSNOWNews28 Sep 2016
Gary Johnson had an "Aleppo moment" after @hardballchris asks who his favorite foreign leader is #JohnsonTownhall nbcnews.to/2dlBurM
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This is why we Oxford comma. xitter.cf/abc/status/78042391223…
ABC News
@ABC26 Sep 2016
Clinton invited several people to the debate, including Mark Cuban, a 9/11 survivor and a domestic abuse survivor. abcn.ws/2d3QsQY
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-has hair? Check. -produced milk? Check. Conclusion? A coconut is a mammal. – at Sunnyvale, CA
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Dax@DAXFROST12 Dec 2013
Wow, 3D printers are really coming along.
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Andy@stenobot8 Dec 2012
Some beautiful new pages in the continuing saga of Summoned Creature summonedcreature.com/ch3.htm… // @woollycreature
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"the marketplace for new ideas has been corrupted by software patents used as destructive weapons." nytimes.com/2012/10/08/techn… via @nickbilton

The Patent, Used as a Sword (Published 2012)

Alongside the impressive technology advances of the last two decades, many see a destructive use of software patents corrupting the marketplace for ideas.

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