Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns. Hello, world!
Today we're going to hear the story of Evil King Java and his quest for worldwide verb stamp-outage.1 Caution: This story does not have a happy ending. It is neither a story for the faint of heart nor for the critical of mouth. If you're easily offended, or prone to being a disagreeable knave in blog comments, please stop reading now. Before we begin the story, let's get some conceptual gunk out of the way. Smart people can rationalize anything. Smart people can rationalize anything One of the things we were able to do at Electric Communities was to attract one of the highest density collections of scary-smart people I’ve ever seen gathered in one place before.
There are a lot of nice things about working with smart people. For one thing, they’re not stupid. Working with stupid people just sucks. The Emperor's Old Clothes.