Dave Johnson on open web technologies, social software and software development https://rollerweblogger.org/roller/feed/entries/atom 2026-03-23T14:54:34+00:00 Apache Roller https://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/godless_hackers Dave Johnson 2008-02-18T10:52:54+00:00 2008-02-18T18:52:54+00:00 <p>Michael Kimsal did an informal <a href="http://michaelkimsal.com/blog/?p=458">survey of computer language use and religion</a> on his blog a couple of weeks ago. The results don&#39;t seem very surprising to me. Like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_atheists#Science_and_technology">Alan Turing, Linus Torvolds and Richard Stallman</a>, most developers are either atheists or agnostics.</p> <p>Here&#39;s Michael&#39;s pie chart for Java:</p> &lt;img src=&quot;http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/resource/godlesshackers.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;pie chart showing half of Java developers are atheists&quot; /&gt; https://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/jesus_camp Dave Johnson 2007-02-09T17:41:02+00:00 2007-02-10T01:41:56+00:00 It&#39;s been in my Netflix queue for a long time and it finally arrived this week. <a hef="http://www.jesuscampthemovie.com/" href="http://www.jesuscampthemovie.com/">Jesus Camp</a> (see also <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Camp">Wikipedia</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486358/">IMDB</a>) is a documentary about an evangelical Christian bible camp that indoctrinates children with far right-wing and anti-science teachings. It&#39;s an excellent documentary and well worth seeing if you want to understand what&#39;s going on in the deep red areas of the USA. It&#39;s truly scary stuff, but church folk aren&#39;t all like that -- check out <a href="http://www.butler.edu/clergyproject/rel_evol_sun2007.htm">Evolution Sunday</a> coming this weekend to a pulpit near you.