Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

[Perl] gives you the STDERR filehandle so that your program can make snide comments off to the side while it transforms (or attempts to transform) your input into your output.

Accidental stacks considered harmful.

Reserve your abuse for your true friends.

I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, "Well, just go and read the documentation," but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.

We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.

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