I'm a bit surprised this is a top link off of HN, I remember it topping reddit many years ago – hardly hacker “news.” As I said about this product then, taking

I'm a bit surprised this is a top link off of HN, I remember it topping reddit many years ago – hardly hacker “news.” As I said about this product then, taking 3 tabs of LSD should not be required before reading a “how to program in this language“ book. The cartoons are great, but if they had some bearing on the content e.g. 3.times{ puts 'chunky bacon' } then I wouldn't feel so much like I was sitting through some performance from the gifted kid class which is sort of boring and semi-insulting: Why yes, imagining what it would be like to be a butterfly at Valley Forge is very creative, but is neither dramatic nor historically enlightening (cf. Beavis and Butthead watching Beck's “Pay no Mind”).