As I sat in "trotro"(public transport in Ghana) coming to work this morning, I thought of how so many programmers introduced themselves at Tech conferences and wondered how God would introduce himself if He were a programmer. Some of the popular intro's at tech conferences go like...
Hi, my name is John Doe
I work at company X
I created software Y
follow me on twitter @~/dev/null
Hi my name is Jack Sparr
I wrote git.js :)
You can see my code on github at ww.github.com/git...
Send me a pull request if you hate something about git
Hi my name is Justin H. Ritch
If you have played HappyBirds,
you have used my code :)
The style goes on and on.
So this is how I think God will introduce Himself.
Hi, my name is God.
I go by @Jehovah on twitter. follow me :)
You can carefully go through my code on github at github.com/God/bible
I am the creator of
1. Air
2. Cats (We all love cats)
3. Mountains
4. You (Yeah, I created you)
If you are in this room, you are currently using code from my air project.
I have also written a lot of academic papers. Notable among them are the Old Testament
and New Testament. I have also worked with other programmers. Notable among them are
Abraham, Jacob, Isaac,Joseph. The list goes on and on..
If you want to work on a project with me, follow my son @Jesus on twitter.
Like most projects, all my projects are open source.
The last time a black hat hacker by name DeVil pushed code to my air project on the lung branch and many of you suffered from
asthma, and other respiratory diseases. Beware of the the DeVil. He goes by @rm-rf on twitter. Resist him.
Thank you.
Questions
I will allow only 3 questions
Q.Hi, my name is Linus Roach, talk is cheap, show us the code to the air project?
A.Drop your ego and be kind to contributors of the linux kernel
Q.Hi, my name is Roberto Martini, popularly known as Uncle Bobby, Do you do Test Driven Development?
A. TDD is for guys like you whose code always break. I am God and my code never
breaks.
Q. Hi, my name is Sato Nakamo,creator of bitcoin, Master, master, please I cannot
understand the Revealation *In an Asian accent*
A. Join the Holy Spirit Community on irc, freenode #holyspirit you will get help from there.
**Just for laughs**
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“There is a community a shared
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history back through decades to the first timesharing minicomputers
and the earliest ARPAnet experiments. The members of this movement
originated the term hacker.
Hackers built the Internet, hackers made
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it and other people in it know who you are and call you a hacker, you
are a hacker ” Eric S. Raymonds (Renowned Hacker)
This extract from How To Become a
Hacker (Interesting Read) by Eric S. Raymonds, author of Cathedral and the Bazaar explains it all.
Eric Raymonds goes on to say
“There is another group of people who loudly call themselves
hackers but aren't . There are people (mainly adolescent males) who
get a kick out of breaking into computers and freaking the phone
system.
Real hackers call these people
crackers and want
nothing to do with them. Real hackers mostly think crackers are
lazy, irresponsible and not very bright and object that being able
to hot wire cars makes you an automotive engineer. Unfortunately, many
journalists and writers have been fooled into using the word hacker
to describe crackers. The basic difference is this;
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break them”
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