{"id":209,"date":"2007-11-01T11:08:36","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T16:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joel.fouse.net\/wp\/2007\/11\/01\/is-this-thing-on\/"},"modified":"2021-06-18T16:24:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T21:24:27","slug":"is-this-thing-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joel.fouse.net\/wp\/2007\/11\/01\/is-this-thing-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this thing on?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Right. A few trips to other countries, one to bring home two beautiful kids, and a house move later, and you start to wonder if there’s time to catch up on everything. Right now, no. But in the meantime, I’ll leave you with a couple of interesting reads by Paul Graham.<\/p>\n

The Word “Hacker”<\/a>
\nGood to clear up any misconceptions, especially since in some respects I consider myself somewhat in the category. Before you call the feds on me, go read it. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

And in a not-altogether-unrelated vein, thoughts on why the land of America is rich but ugly:
\nMade in USA<\/a><\/p>\n

And just in case you’re still around, thoughts on some of the mental aspects of programming:
\nHolding a Program in One’s Head<\/a>
\nI especially like the image of walking around in a memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Right. A few trips to other countries, one to bring home two beautiful kids, and a house move later, and you start to wonder if there’s time to catch up on everything. Right now, no. But in the meantime, I’ll leave you with a couple of interesting reads by Paul Graham. The Word “Hacker” Good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.fouse.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.fouse.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.fouse.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.fouse.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.fouse.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/joel.fouse.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"https:\/\/joel.fouse.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.fouse.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.fouse.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.fouse.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}