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• Quote #388 "What matters to me is the -writing-, the act of manufacturing the novel, because while I am doing it, I am in that world I'm writing about.
  It is real to me, completely and utterly. Then, when I'm finished, and have to stop, withdraw from that world -forver-, that destroys me....
• In the face of entropy and nothingness, you have to kind of pretend it's not there if you want to keep writing good code.
  -- Karl Lehenbaue...
• Homer: Here are your messages: "You have 30 minutes to move your ca
  "You have 10 minutes", "Your car has been impounded", "Your car has been crushed into a cube", "You have 30 minutes to move your cube"....
• Quote #614 If you think C++ is not overly complicated, just what is a protected abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor and when was the last time you needed one?
  -- Tom Cargill...
• bare metal n. 1. [common] New computer hardware, unadorned with such snares and delusions as an operating system, an bit bashing needed to create these basic tools for a new machine.
  Real bare-metal programming involves things like building boot proms and BIOS chips, implementing basic monitors used to test device drivers, and writing the assemblers that will be used to write the compiler back ends that will give the new machine a real development environment....
• Progasm: the feeling you get when your code works the first time.
• __ , Have you . -U o\__ ' bitten | ________./ a BUG ||_ ||_ today?
• Mars n. A legendary tragic failure, the archetypal Hacker Dream Gone Wrong.
  Mars was the code name for a family of PDP-10 compatible computers built by Systems Concepts (now, The SC Group)...
• Now it's time to say goodbye To all our company... M-I-C (see you next week!
  ) K-E-Y (Why? Because we LIKE you!) M-O-U-S-E....