“Dr Tarver, I need to do a final year project but I can’t do any programming” https://web.archive.org/web/20070418005048/http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/decline.htm…

Ever notice how often writers use the word “priesthood” to describe the operations teams in charge of mainframes? Rudolf Winestock, “The Eternal Mainframe”…

we just call it “the cloud” now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5059557…

No general procedure for bug checks will do. Now, I won’t just assert that, I’ll prove it to you. I will prove that although you might work till you drop, you cannot tell if computation will stop.…

“Any sufficiently complex input format is indistinguishable from bytecode; the code receiving it is indistinguishable from a virtual machine.“ https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/login…

It’s natural for programmers to view the executable binary generated from their programs through the prism of their source code https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/login_aug15_02_bratu…

My personal list (mostly imperative languages) C++: (Complex software with elegance + performance ) * Dart source code * V8 source code (Same people as Dart) * LevelDB * Chrome (the only downsid…

But the idea everyone should learn how to code is as plausible as saying that everyone should learn how to plumb. To me it just makes no sense. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/mar/09/evgen…

… They are ripe for ridiculing because they are ridiculous in many cases, and the only reason they are advancing is because they plug in the conceptual and theoretical holes in their theories with buz…

I wish it would dawn upon engineers that, in order to be an engineer, it is not enough to be an engineer. José Ortega y Gasset, 1939…

a rebel spirit succumbing to perhaps the only force that could destroy it: gentrification Aeon Magazine, “How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos”…