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…

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…

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…

our assessment method is so empirical that it would be equivalent to building a copy of the failed bridge, and observe bolt by bolt – with intuition (and stack dumps) guiding which bolts to observe fi…

Scheme is a beautiful programming language, but every Scheme program is ugly. – Larry Wall…

the result of striving for ultimate simplicity is intolerable complexitytoo-long proofstoo-long definitions…

So the tension around types comes from the fact that if you want to program in a style that turns effects into explicit things that get passed around, sophisticated higher-order functions are necessar…

If I sound elitist, it’s only because the time and difficulty required for wrapping a complex topic into a coherent narrative is often underestimated by those who have never done it. A book is not 150…

Processes componentize the heap. Modules componentize the code. http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-May/058789.html…

When I worked with companies that have a holy mess of code, I felt like there wasn’t enough time in the day to refactor everything. When things broke when I refactored them I got yelled at. It felt li…

I think one of the main consequences of the inventions of personal computing and the world wide Internet is that everyone gets to be a potential participant, and this means that we now have the entire…

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