diff --git a/docs/jargon-org.txt b/docs/jargon-org.txt index 39f0ca4..27ec2ff 100644 --- a/docs/jargon-org.txt +++ b/docs/jargon-org.txt @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Free Documentation License". * Generated -This file last generated Sunday, 12 February 2017 11:03AM UTC +This file last generated Sunday, 12 February 2017 11:17AM UTC * Glossary ** ( @@ -1387,7 +1387,7 @@ Acronym for Really Simple Syndication. A format often referred to as a "feed" fo The malign force which lurks behind the random number generator in Angband (and by extension elsewhere). A dark god that demands sacrifices and toys with its victims. I just found a really great item; I suppose the RNG is about to punish me... Apparently, Angband's random number generator occasionally gets locked in a repetition, so you get something with a 3% chance happening 8 times in a row. Improbable, but far too common to be pure chance. Compare Shub-Internet. *** Reading Habits -Omnivorous, but usually includes lots of science and science fiction. The typical hacker household might subscribe to Analog , Scientific American , Whole-Earth Review , and Smithsonian (most hackers ignore Wired and other self-consciously cyberpunk magazines, considering them wannabee fodder). Hackers often have a reading range that astonishes liberal arts people but tend not to talk about it as much. Many hackers spend as much of their spare time reading as the average American burns up watching TV, and often keep shelves and shelves of well-thumbed books in their homes. +Omnivorous. Hackers often have a reading range that astonishes liberal arts people but tend not to talk about it as much. Many hackers spend as much of their spare time reading as the average prole burns up watching TV/movies, and often have an extensive epub/pdf collection on a storage device or server somewhere. *** Real Programmer n. [indirectly, from the book Real Men Don't Eat Quiche ] A particular sub-variety of hacker: one possessed of a flippant attitude toward complexity that is arrogant even when justified by experience. The archetypal Real Programmer likes to program on the bare metal and is very good at same, remembers the binary opcodes for every machine he has ever programmed, thinks that HLLs are sissy, and uses a debugger to edit his code because full-screen editors are for wimps. Real Programmers aren't satisfied with code that hasn't been tuned into a state of tense ness just short of rupture. Real Programmers never use comments or write documentation: If it was hard to write , says the Real Programmer, it should be hard to understand. Real Programmers can make machines do things that were never in their spec sheets; in fact, they are seldom really happy unless doing so. A Real Programmer's code can awe with its fiendish brilliance, even as its crockishness appalls. Real Programmers live on junk food and coffee, hang line-printer art on their walls, and terrify the crap out of other programmers because someday, somebody else might have to try to understand their code in order to change it. Their successors generally consider it a Good Thing that there aren't many Real Programmers around any more. For a famous (and somewhat more positive) portrait of a Real Programmer, see The Story of Mel' in Appendix A. The term itself was popularized by a letter to the editor in the July 1983 Datamation titled Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal by Ed Post, still circulating on Usenet and Internet in on-line form. Typing Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal into a web search engine should turn up a copy. diff --git a/docs/jargon.1.gz b/docs/jargon.1.gz index 7d3caf7..71737a3 100644 Binary files a/docs/jargon.1.gz and b/docs/jargon.1.gz differ diff --git a/docs/jargon.html b/docs/jargon.html index 8f069cc..3c34aa5 100644 --- a/docs/jargon.html +++ b/docs/jargon.html @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Free Documentation License".

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Reading Habits

- Omnivorous, but usually includes lots of science and science fiction. The typical hacker household might subscribe to Analog , Scientific American , Whole-Earth Review , and Smithsonian (most hackers ignore Wired and other self-consciously cyberpunk magazines, considering them wannabee fodder). Hackers often have a reading range that astonishes liberal arts people but tend not to talk about it as much. Many hackers spend as much of their spare time reading as the average American burns up watching TV, and often keep shelves and shelves of well-thumbed books in their homes. + Omnivorous. Hackers often have a reading range that astonishes liberal arts people but tend not to talk about it as much. Many hackers spend as much of their spare time reading as the average prole burns up watching TV/movies, and often have an extensive epub/pdf collection on a storage device or server somewhere.

Real Programmer

diff --git a/entries/Reading Habits.txt b/entries/Reading Habits.txt index afe0b74..527fd00 100644 --- a/entries/Reading Habits.txt +++ b/entries/Reading Habits.txt @@ -1,11 +1,7 @@ Reading Habits -Omnivorous, but usually includes lots of science and science fiction. The -typical hacker household might subscribe to Analog , Scientific American , -Whole-Earth Review , and Smithsonian (most hackers ignore Wired and other -self-consciously cyberpunk magazines, considering them wannabee fodder). -Hackers often have a reading range that astonishes liberal arts people but -tend not to talk about it as much. Many hackers spend as much of their spare -time reading as the average American burns up watching TV, and often keep -shelves and shelves of well-thumbed books in their homes. - +Omnivorous. Hackers often have a reading range that astonishes liberal arts +people but tend not to talk about it as much. Many hackers spend as much of +their spare time reading as the average prole burns up watching TV/movies, and +often have an extensive epub/pdf collection on a storage device or server +somewhere.