nerdiness devours me

I just stumbled over an older article by Joel Spolsky and the following quote really makes me want to read it thoroughly… I must admit, I would be be one of the onion peelers…

If you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don’t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I’m going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine. I swear I will.
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