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HOORAY!! I'M THE AIR MARSHAL!!

Ninja edit: this is funnier if you read it in Ralph Wiggum's voice.

That's legit scary because I know for sure that would be me too. I think many/most fathers would say the same.

I've always wanted to ask this: is the hole really that bad? And if so, why exactly?

I know many of us who have never been in prison like to think the old "I'll just punch a guard and get put in solitary the whole time 'cause that's better then getting shanked and raped all the time!"... now, I suspect most of use would NOT punch a guard 'cause that can't end well, hole or not, but I tend to be a loner regularly anyway so I'm really not sure what about the hole would be worse than having to look over my shoulder constantly in genpop. Can you fill me in?

Thanks in advance, and very happy to hear you got your life turned around!!

When did you have an opportunity to smell Ralph Lauren to compare?! You live a charmed life!

I love this answer because I started programming at a time (right around 1980) where straight Assembly was the only way to accomplish awesome things, especially when making games, which I did and still do (not even close to Mark's level of course). I don't lament those days to the extent that more people can do more amazing things these days than ever before, but I very much DO lament them because there seems to be a lack fundamental understanding of the machines we're all using and I think that really hurts even when you're working at a much higher level. And, it's often not nearly as fun to call a high-level library function as it is to have to twiddle those bits in Assembly yourself.

So I'm totally with you Mark, I miss those days too, sometimes anyway, and I think we'd universally have better developers if everyone at least had SOME experience like we had working close to the metal.