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I too appreciated his style of candor at times. I hope that he is able to find a way to keep being Linus while also not resorting to personal attacks, and I applaud him for reflecting on his actions.

Thanks for sharing this!

The only regret I have about deleting my FB account is that I forgot it was attached to a mobile game account that my partner plays... when she lost her tablet, she lost the account and could no longer recover or login because the FB account attached to it was long gone. Oops.

When I was younger I used Perl for a lot of the things that I use Python for today: websites, command line tools, and one-off scripts. It's not a bad tool, and it has real strengths, especially for short one-off scripts.

I was in the pedantic "meaningful whitespace is evil" camp back then, so I avoided Python. Then I got an internship in a house that used Python. That forced me to give Python a real try and I got over the whitespace thing... I learned that for all intents and purposes this language I had been scoffing was a better tool for many of my usual Perl use cases and more thanks to its extensive standard library.

Not only is Python easy to learn for beginners, it allows for some deeply expressive constructs and patterns that are difficult or impossible in other languages. This is why even though I started with C/C++ and Java pays the bills, Python is where my heart is. Thanks Guido.

This is common and should be encouraged. If we can't have a little fun while programming, then what the hell are we doing with our lives?

Firefox is genuinely a blessing to use now. I still haven't gotten used to the developer tools after exclusively using Chrome's for so many years, but I'm sure I'll get the hang of it eventually.

I wear skirts or leggings, usually paired with a hoodie or other jacket, and some sort of boots. When I'm lazy (like today) I'll just put on some active wear and call it an outfit.

Very nicely presented! A few spelling and phrasing suggestions:

  s/in order and independents/in order and independent/;
  s/Multiplataform/Multiplatform/;
  s/Have you got any doubt?/Questions? Ask us!/;
  s/you’ll must have a user account/you must have a user account/;

I used to have an Amex card because of Costco's exclusivity deal with them. I only used it to shop at Costco because many other places didn't accept Amex and my daily driver card has better benefits. I didn't feel like applying for another credit card when the Costco deal ended, so it just ended up being turned into a Citi Visa that I pretty much never use.