After writing around a 200 LOC toy program, a friend of mine posed a question to me: "If someone offered you this deal, would you take it: You get $1,000,000,0

After writing around a 200 LOC toy program, a friend of mine posed a question to me: "If someone offered you this deal, would you take it: You get $1,000,000,000 if your program runs perfectly on the first try. If it doesn't run perfectly, he chops your hand off." This got my thinking a lot about what being a hacker would be like without a hand. I can bang code near 100 WPM, and I get thrills from flying around Vim like a wizard. Reading this article has definitely strengthened my position that I would not take the bet.