I owe so much to IRC. I learn a huge amount of things <i>everyday</i> just having discussions on the various channels in freenode. The company firewall is no more an obstacle, thanks to <a href="http://webchat.freenode.net/" rel="nofollow">http://webchat.freenode.net/</a> . I often have collegues coming with questions whose answer I ignore, and I redirect them to #python, #perl, #bash, #bzr, #git, #algorithms, #html5, #jquery, #go-nuts, ##C++-general, #debian ... I made a few of them fellow addicts! I came to think that the answer to wathever question I can have is just a<p><pre><code> /msg alis list *<whatever topic>*
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from me.