Tom Morris

A pungent mix of programming, philosophy, pedanticism, procrastination, perplexity, peripheral political polemic, and platters of preposterousness.

Der Spiegel has an article that debunks the whole “digital native” bullshit that has been going on for far too long. Citizenship of the Internet - if that is the metaphor we wish to use - is defined by ability and knowledge, not age. Get me a bunch of middle-aged programmers who sling HTTP, XML, JSON, Ruby and Java around like spaghetti at a food fight and they’ll bloody well show the kids who click on to Facebook for a few minutes during morning break what for.

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