There is reasons it ended, and some of them good. Sorry, got caught up in nostalgia a bit there.

You can still write open source stuff without needing anything besides technical knowledge, if you are in a situation where you have extra time and energy after feeding yourself.

Ah yes, the honest days of development, when you just got your hands dirty and didn’t have to worry about expensive formal education and stupid interview tactics.

So does that imply they already knew the candidate they were hiring, and were just checking if this is the guy?

Crackers work hard.

Edit: Wait, does that mean you did it again? Haha.

Wow, an XKCD-style feel-old fact about XKCD.

Out of milk: Killed process 8008135

Or, alternately, if step one doesn’t internally handle the cap being missing it silently hangs or halts there, and the user is too busy catatonically staring at the spout to enjoy anything.

Wait, what does the middle track do?

Man, actually seeing this in a wild log would make my day.