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brian6··on Why your child's school bus has no seat belts
I don't understand how anyone can believe it's safer to be unrestrained and free to bounce around the cabin in a crash.

It's definitely cheaper, though. And, maybe more importantly, banning kids who won't stay buckled up would be very unpopular.

brian6··on Unicode Snowman for You
How to monetize this? In general, how to monetize being funny/entertaining (on the web)?
brian6··on Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Programmer Who Gives a Shit
I agree with you. Just posting to say that there is an HTTP server in Erlang that's supposed to be very good: Yaws.
brian6··on Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Programmer Who Gives a Shit
This successfully trolled me, because I think Haskell is really good stuff made by really smart and cool people. Surely there was a better target for satire.

I'm an industry programmer (in C). I also have a bunch of packages on Hackage.

brian6··on Life in Text Mode
youtube-dl!
brian6··on Life in Text Mode
I think he made a lot of good choices. These days I would pick tmux over screen and newsbeuter over snownews.

ion really was a great and influential window manager, but now, it'd probably be better to pick XMonad, awesome, or i3.

vimperator has been a lifesaver for me, but I'm switching to luakit because it doesn't seem to allow flash to steal the keyboard focus.

brian6··on Life in Text Mode
I was just about to badmouth his tool choices when I noticed that the post is from 2006.