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They were handed to him on a silver platter by the rest of the marketIn order to resist the temptation this worldwide herd of mindless junk-peddlers and imitators have placed before him, it would not…
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What would I recommend learning? - C - Prolog - Erlang (I’m biased) - Smalltalk - Javascript - Hakell / ML /OCaml - LISP/Scheme/Clojure A couple of years should be enough (PER LA…
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Ok, here we go, yet another "online presence" of some sort. If this is still active six months from today, I'll give it its domain name.…
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The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is…
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In an announcement that has stunned the computer industry, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan admitted that the Unix operating system and C programming language created by them is an ela…
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The anthropomorphic analogy is misleading. A computer program is a formal system, not a collection of living beings. Forget that at your peril. http://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/anthropomorphism-and-o…
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Imagine for a moment that programmers were constantly baited with snake oil: paradigm shifts this way! Agile scrum productivity boost ahead! An IDE that will astound you! A framework that solves the i…
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Another aspect of that same trait is the cult of iterative design. – EWD 1248…
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GUI “variety”? Are you joking? The very reason there exists so much “variety” is that they all suck. – comment on HackerNews, on the “advantages of Linux”…
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muchFrankly, raw seething bits is an abstraction on what is really provided: a bunch of circuitryIf we can abstract out the wires, we can abstract out the bits https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!top…
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As software increasingly structures the contemporary world, curiously, it also withdraws, and becomes harder and harder for us to focus on as it is embedded, hidden, off-shored or merely forgotten abo…
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The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time. – Tim Cargill…