One poster had written:

Real programmers type cat | cc and get it right the first time.

The other replied:

Some of us don’t have to cling to safety blankets like that. We prefer the simplicity of cat > a.out

The start of SiOnyx has prompted a rash of articles on “Black Silicon”. The Tree Hugger article was very “Rah Rah!” while the After Gutenberg article was much more grounded. The idea is that some R+D folks came up with a way to enhance the surface of a silicon wave to improve it’s ability to absorbe photons. Conspicously missing from this was a write-up on whether any electrons were kicked out by this absorbtion. After all, if that absorbtion doesn’t create electrons, it’s creating heat. I can make anything create heat by painting it black.

This was the most facinating graph I’ve seen in a while. Would you believe that the amount of money in money market accounts varies inversely with the stock market? It does have large implications for market timing. Not so much right now, but in the future.