I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

I like colorized diffs, but let's face it, those particular color choices will make most people decide to pick out their eyes with a fondue fork. And that's no…

EFI is this other Intel brain-damage (the first one being ACPI).

Most days I wake up thinking I'm the luckiest bastard alive.

If you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix your program.

The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in the small…

Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...