Agnostic

Here is an excellent debate between Atheist Harris and Theist Warren.I liked it and hopefully you will like it too.

Read this article on 11/3/2006

I read the article Orphans Preferred (An excerpt from the book After the Gold Rush, by Steve McConnell)on Gamasutra.This is a fairly interesting look at programmers, as compared to therest of the population. I think that what is really interesting is tocompare types within the field of programmers. The best known amongtypes of programmers are the hackers -- those whose work and culturedisproportionately influences technology. In addition to being thetypes who design the tools and infrastructure that lets the"mainstream programmers" do their work, these also tend to assume theadvisory roles, helping others through their problems, and writingabout the art of programming.When thinking about "hackers", a long list of names springs to mind,some famous, and others almost completely unknown outside of their owncommunity. John McCarthy (jmm), Richard Greenblatt (rwg), Guy LewisSteele (gls), JonL White (jonl), Bill Gosper, Richard Stallman (rms),all from MIT; others proudly wear the title, including Don Knuth(dek), Bill Joy (wnj), John Walker, and Jamie Zawinski (jwz).No other virtual community has so well established its culture and itscontributions. Hackers have done this through their writings,especially by means of such treasures as JARGON.TXT (now published asThe New Hacker's Dictionary), the HAKMEM series, and beautiful booksthat describe the very essence of computing.Returning to the MBTI discussed in the article Vince referenced, it'snoteworthy that almost all hackers are of the types INTP or INTJ.Looking at the history and culture of hackers and the influence ofhackers on their community, it isn't difficult to see how many of thestereotypes about "computer people", especially programmers, got theirstart. The sometimes maniacal intensity, the complete lack ofacknowledgment of social structures and rank, and the apparentdisconnection with "reality" are hallmarks of not only the hackerculture, but of the INT_ personalities (especially the INTP).Given this apparent influence of the hackers on the stereotype ofprogrammers, it's particularly interesting to observe that, contraryto stereotype, most hackers, despite their intense focus on The Hack,are actually very well-rounded, intellectually. It isn't the leastbit uncommon to find a hacker who is also a competent amateurphysicist or mathematician. More surprisingly, the same can be saidof hackers who are competent musicians, historians, or followers ofother disciplines which seem completely unrelated to the hacker'soccupational choice.Thus I leave you with some further reading for those interested inmore.The New Hacker's Dictionaryhttp://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/How To Become A Hackerhttp://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.htmlA Brief History of Hackerdomhttp://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/hacker-history/--Matt Curtin cmcurtin@interhack.nethttp://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/

Short Introduction to this Blog

As this is the first post of my blog so in this,its my responsibility to welcome anyone coming here.I will post the articles and the stuff which i feel interesting.If you r interested in reading those then you are most welcome.