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copiga··on Dilbert's creator says you shouldn't have a career plan
heres mine:

    finish college

    get job

    pay taxes

    work until i can afford a van, petrol, food, passport and visas

    get van

    travel world

    die


of course only two of these are certain...
copiga··on On Lisp: Happy 20th Birthday
most people on my course are like that. at the start about 90% didnt know what a programming language is and about 50% didnt know what WYSIWYG stands for...
copiga··on On Lisp: Happy 20th Birthday
that may be due to where they learned, I am doing a HND in computer science and we are learning C# and nothing else...

before i began i knew (well enough to make use of) C, vala and a small amount of lisp and PHP

copiga··on Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox
<blink> as the most hated?

what about <marquee>?

copiga··on Ask HN: Share your top 10 linux commands

     1  104  10.4%  valac
     2  98   9.8%   cd
     3  84   8.4%   fg
     4  83   8.3%   emacs
     5  59   5.9%   ls
     6  47   4.7%   ssh
     7  32   3.2%   vala
     8  31   3.1%   cat
     9  22   2.2%   mkdir
    10  22   2.2%   ..
copiga··on Ask HN: Why programmers should use Vim?
s/Sublime\ Text/emacs/
copiga··on This is a regular text file. People will read it. Maybe.
M-x autofill-mode
copiga··on Ask HN: PRogramming Language for 2013?
i still love C. the idea of a yearly programming language is confusing though, are "last years languages" suddenly useless? or is it a personal learning thing?
copiga··on Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
in the process of making a better-than-stock security system for the land rover defender.