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Want your new programming language to be a success? Grow a beard! :)

Either people are in a big rush to learn about computers, or that computers are somehow fabulously easier to learn than anything else. There are no books on how to learn Beethoven, or Quantum Physics, or even Dog Grooming in more...

A classic article describing a programmers natural attraction to Linux and other open source systems.

Good software takes at least 10 years to develop because it takes programmers at least 10 years to develop good proficiency in programming and the problem domain.

Steve Yegge has singlehandedly produced a great online multi player game in 500,000 lines of java code and the sheer size of it is killing him. Solution: Not better tools, but a better language.

Presented with a 20-fold increase in selectable items, it's not too difficult to see why traditional keyboard navigation techniques completely break down. They were never designed to handle such complex navigation scenarios.

They developed a massive, 65,536 processor supercomputer. It was visually stunning enough to star as the “impressive blinky-light server” in Jurassic Park. Of course, that’s just about all it was good for.