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Since my brain decided to get serious: Probably as true as any other generalization. I imagine it's more about the different nerd cultures people are fostered in. Also, an abstraction oriented person probably doesn't just think about schools, they probably think about how common the failure to protect against SQL injection is ("Oh man, this one job I worked at... I can't believe people are still messing that up!").
jQuery creator John Resig needs a little help storing lists of words in his side project. Let's go overkill and explore a little known branch of computer science called Succinct Data Structures.
Back in 2007, I created a rhyming engine based on the public domain Moby pronouncing dictionary. It simply reads the dictionary and looks for rhyming words by comparing the suffix of the words' pronunciations. Since that time, I have made some improvements.
Once you post something on the Internet, it is hard to get rid of it. As an experiment, I deleted one of my past posts, and I tried to remove all traces of it.
A while back I thought it would be interesting to be able to draw arbitrary waveforms and then listen to how they sound. I had an audio engine just laying around, so I whipped up a quick application to do that.
Dust off your old Commodore 64, and you could be the coolest kid on the block by plugging SD cards into it instead of floppies.
Make sure your lines are sharp using this simple trick.