So I got C#/Java article got posted on Slashdot and knew it was just a matter of time before some idiot who didn't read the article posted some idiocy similar to Eloquence's crap from my Open Source and security article about how it was written by an MSFT shill.

I am highly amused. Just like I thought I found a good Carnage4Life is a MSFT shill thread with some twit from

This post by greenrd amused a few of us in school today. It's a typical example of how the "can't codes" that visit Slashdot think programming is such a magical activity that the shitty practices in some Open Source code can be excused because those programmers are l337 h4x0rs.

While giving a group presentation to the TA of my operating systems class on how our modifications to the Linux kernel memory allocation scheme I had an epiphany. realized that I'm going to be under-utilized when I start work next year.

Comments like this one are why I find reading Slashdot so humorous. Some Apple code monkey writes a script that uses rm -rf without being careful (use quotes, watch those spaces) but somehow this is an opportunity to bash Microsoft?

I love that place.