C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it.

If you have ever done any security work - and it did not involve the concept of "network of trust" - it wasn't security work, it was - masturbation. I don't know what you were doing. But trust me, it's the only way you can do security, it's the only way you can do development.

I seldom get self-righteous, and even when I am being impolite (almost always on purpose - there's an art to insulting people, too), I tend to try to not be too serious about it. And most of the time it means that I can take criticism constructively, and sometimes just change my opinion on the fly and laugh at myself over having turned on a dime.

All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less

I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.

I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.

Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.