“A good server knows how to be seen, yet remain invisible. I was a great server, and I achieved invisibility by never showing up for work. My boss ended up firing me, probably over petty jealousy.”

“There are plenty of servers out there. however, there are a select few of server owners that decide to make their rules as dickish as possible. What's up with that?”

“How to arrive unexpectedly and invisibly: show up looking poor, but not homeless.”

“Debugging tip: For server applications, be sure to always specify the -server JVM command line switch when invoking the JVM, even for development and testing. The server JVM performs more optimization than the client JVM, such as hoisting variables out of a loop that are not modified in the loop; code that might appear to work in the development environment (client JVM) can break in the deployment environment (server JVM).”

“Tomorrow night I’m giving a lecture on silence and invisibility. Don’t be surprised if I don’t show up.
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“I used to work at the unemployment office. I hated it, because when they fired me, I had to show up to work anyway.”