The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.

Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.

Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.

It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.

Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.

Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.