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imho, never trust a three-year old with a keyboard.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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UNSW Sydney scientists have discovered the purpose of a famous 3700-year old Babylonian clay tablet, revealing it is the world's oldest and most accurate trigonometric table, possibly used by ancient mathematical scribes to calculate how to construct palaces and temples and build canals. If Ur is on a donkey travelling east at five cubits an hour, and Biff is on a camel travelling west at 10 leagues per day...
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Kent Sharkey wrote: If Ur is on a donkey travelling east at five cubits an hour...
That right there is some solid humor. 
Keep up the great work with the tag lines and blurbs.
Have you tried your hand at the Twitter? You might be the next big thing over there. 
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Amazing what people did without glorified vacuum tubes. 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: five cubits an hour
Is the donkey dead?
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@BernhardHiller
Hi, Bernhard,
original publication in Historia Mathematica linked to below
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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fyi: the authors' original publication in Historia Mathematica: [^]
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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The concepts of Agile software development are well understood, more than a decade after the original manifesto was put to paper. It calls for things such as “people over process” and “responding to change over following a plan.” Is that like having yoga classes for everyone before work?
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The Linux Foundation’s 2017 Open Source Jobs Report confirms that the hiring market for developers with open source skills is hot, hot, hot. Sharing code is a skill now?
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What the heck is "open source skills?" Creating a GitHub account and posting a pet project?
According to this article, (yes, I actually googled "what are open source skills") they are:
- Developers
This could include skills like Linux, Unix, Apache, Hadoop and other open source platforms that span technology areas like software development, big data, data center technology and security.
- DevOps
they are more reliant than ever on open source code and projects, and the talent to integrate it with backend cloud services, and to transform hardware-centric solutions into 'software defined' technology,
- Cloud Tech
OpenStack, CloudStack and other cloud-centric technologies were cited as areas of focus by 51 percent of hiring managers surveyed.
- Networking
Networking, too, is in high demand, with 21 percent of hiring managers looking for talent with those skills
- Storage
he need to access data, files and information shared via networking, by multiple users from multiple locations, from shared resources in the cloud means a perfect storm of demand for distributed storage talent
And this relates to open source how? Oh yeah:
Much of the demand is driven by the fact that open source code is an integral part of today's connected digital world
OK. Finish the thought for me. Here's a hint -- it's still code and usually poorly documented apps, that requires training to become skilled at. No different than closed source, except that open source, support is worse (but you could pay for it sometimes) and the apps, dependencies, etc., are all moving targets.
Oh, and let's not forget those pesky license agreements. 
modified 24-Aug-17 16:02pm.
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I am highly skilled at not getting around to sending in the paperwork to the Copyright office.
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Open Source foundation finds that Open Source is COOL!
Meanwhile, a study by The Closed Source Foundation....
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The rules call for vehicles to protect human lives over animals or property. Mental note: always walk with philosophers in Germany
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That's not ethical. The ethical thing to do is to stop in a straight line so people can predict its trajectory.
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Fun fact: if you’ve got a child under the age of ten, hashtags are officially older than them. Before then, it just wasted space on the keyboard?
Ignoring IRC, its use in HTTP, and HTML. And those poor C programmers just couldn't include anything. 
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Am I the only one who still can't stand hearing people saying 'hashtag'?
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Have a seat please.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I prefer the spanish version... literal translation "little pillow"
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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SoMad wrote: Am I the only one who still can't stand hearing people saying 'hashtag'?
No, you're not! It drives me batty.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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for sure, you're not the only one.
what bugs me is that some, maybe most(for sure not all) people when they say for instance #resist or whatever they think they are so wise and sh*t like that, and more often then not they are the same people that comment and share articles on various media based purely on the title.
There were some tests done by various people one of them being Ryan Holiday that put many such fake articles on media and they got tons of shares and comments, but in the article there was nothing about the title of the article. Conclusion people just share and comment on stuff that they think will make them look better somehow, without even looking at the said article. I don;t know if I should laugh or cry. 
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No.... pound or number sign.
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The '#' character is typographically called an octothorpe[^]. One of its colloquial names is a "hash" character.
Attaching a hash character to a search term creates either an "octothorpe prefixed search term" or a "hashtag".
Do you want to spend the rest of your life using 28 characters(*) to refer to this concept, or 7?
(*) especially when no one else will understand what you're getting on about
Software Zen: delete this;
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Makes me think of #ish
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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