It’s an odd failing of incredibly smart people that their needs are the same as everyone else’s. It seems to be very common (maybe dumb people make the same mistake as well, but you just don’t notice…

On the Erlang mail list, four years ago, Erlang creator Joe Armstrong posted this: In Concurrency Oriented (CO) programming you concentrate on the concurrency and the messages between the processes. T…

Of course, being the industrious hackerz that they are, they could just write this damn thing from scratch using an uber-powerful language that’s supposed to make them 100 times more productive than t…

Again, here are the 4 words I would use when describing the essence of Computer Science, in order of significance: Note that I purposely didn’t use either the word ‘computer’ or 'science’ in my s…

That battle is over – the future Linux desktop/workstation users are the ones who are comfortable with the command line, and that market will neither grow nor shrink, it will remain the niche that it…

C is to developers what Latin and Ancient Greek are to linguists. http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/38617/is-it-still-relevant-to-learn-c-these-days…

“This is a bad idea as some people read all the kernel patches to find the security holes.” http://www.zdnet.com/the-ups-and-downs-of-life-with-linus-3039189593/…

… there’s a difference between bleeding edge and leading edge. http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2014/11/21/a-few-things/…

If you want to run a big portion of the Internet then you need to act like an infrastructure provider and not a desktop applications vendor. http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/11/19/update-on-azure…

Our computer languages are all geared towards the same thing. They view the computer as a single, hyperfast, hyperaccurate, clerk. Computer languages are simply the languages we use to direct the oper…

Writing on programming, effort vs reward, via sealedabstract Meta-Note: I suppose this Tumblr post is …. what? 50? :)…

The dispute here is philosophical. You want a distribution that follows The Unix Way. Where init does its little job and dbus does its little job and so on. Small, simple tools. But there is another…