{"id":1895,"date":"2010-04-08T06:34:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T10:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2014-03-22T07:10:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T11:10:37","slug":"you-have-ascended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=1895","title":{"rendered":"You have ascended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Redoubtable hacker <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chip_Salzenberg\">Chip Salzenberg<\/a> wrote me last night with the subject line &#8220;You have ascended&#8221;. I quote in full:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nLong time no chat.  Hope you are well.  In fact, I don&#8217;t have to hope, because I just read this in a book:<\/p>\n<p>Raymond in his brilliant The Cathedral and the Bazaar [2001] &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all well and good, and I know enough authors not to be excessibly impressed by publication.<\/p>\n<p>Thing is, this book is by Fred Brooks.  As in, Brooks&#8217; Law.<\/p>\n<p>Oh My Lack Of God.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a halo now, or maybe a relic to protect you from feature creep?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After boggling for a few minutes, I wrote back:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI can almost top this.  Donald Knuth once sent me a bug fix.  For INTERCAL.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmmm..  Now, where <em>did<\/em> I stash that Amulet of Yendor?<\/p>\n<p>If you found the preceding exchange cryptic, you <s>need to get out more<\/s> are probably a normal human being with, like, a life. How sad for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redoubtable hacker Chip Salzenberg wrote me last night with the subject line &#8220;You have ascended&#8221;. I quote in full: Long time no chat. Hope you are well. In fact, I don&#8217;t have to hope, because I just read this in a book: Raymond in his brilliant The Cathedral and the Bazaar [2001] &#8230; That&#8217;s all&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=1895\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You have ascended<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[29,24],"class_list":["post-1895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mr-famous-guy","tag-esr","tag-open-source","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2194,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions\/2194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}