i remember such a scene from "the gods must be crazy".

thank you for Miranda

I was a network engineer and would do the same, can't place the exact reason why, but today i am a python programmer doing network automation. I do think HN had a major part to play in this change

Network Engineer here too. I learned to code with Python and now do full-time PowerShell automation at work. It completely changed my career. Best decision I ever made.

there is something fascinating about a lone programmer, disconnected from the net, writing the fastest interpreter for awk. https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html#Foreword3

+1 for the c programming book, would love to see it in it's current form too.

its an everyday struggle, but noting down the things which i am thankful for, such as wife, kid, some particular incident which could have been much worse but ended being manageable etc. has helped me a lot. It's a slow process though.

forth was used in the philae lander, http://www.cpushack.com/2014/11/12/here-comes-philae-powered...

thank you for the book.

can you tell me how you did this, i would really like to try this out.