Merely adding features does not make it easier for users to do things — it just makes the manual thicker From the K&R paper, but s/UNIX/Golang/ is also true!…

What then is a personal computer Alan Kay…

There’s a lesson there that’s easy to forget–or ignore. It’s extremely difficult to be simultaneously concerned with the end-user experience of whatever it is that you’re building and the architecture…

The only sane solution is to focus on the end application first. Get the user to experience the beauty of it and be happy. Don’t compromise that because, behind the scenes, the code to draw ovals is m…

It’s not quite as important now to squeeze things down into a 4K memory area. You’re seeing a lot more cases where people can afford to use C, instead of using assembly language Bill Gates from when…

programmingmaking http://reprog.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/whatever-happened-to-programming/…

* What is Bayesianism? * Another name for probability theory, with hat tip to the God-fearing Reverend Thomas Bayes who earned naming rights with his Eighteenth century mathematical work. * What is…

They are the ultimate time drain for nerds and wannabes. Sure, if your time worth basically nothing and constant tweaking your blog is the best part about having it, be my guest. http://wswld.net/201…

Movies flow to the audience in one direction. Paintings do not move. Code goes both ways. http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/advice.html…

Title stolen from here: Each month is an annually renewable technical or personal challenge: * Go analog. * Stay healthy. * Embrace the uncomfortable. * Learn a new programming language. * Auto…

Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey. “Roman Jakobson” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0…

In accepting freedom of speech, we can’t hide from its consequences - which in this case is millions of terabytes of unreliable information, badly designed and clumsily written. We have failed our own…