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Symbolics is committing suicide with its own development plansBut programming is not only about art, it’s also about performance. And when it comes to performance, it’s either put up or shut up. ftp:…
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BSD is what you get when a bunch of Unix hackers sit down to try to port a Unix system to the PC. Linux is what you get when a bunch of PC hackers sit down and try to write a Unix system for the PC.…
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… Linux is for people who hate Microsoft, FreeBSD is for people who love Unix. http://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/2afi7c/why_is_it_freebsd_so_unpopular_in_contrast_to/…
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(From this Slashdot thread): There are three approaches to computing. There’s the commercial-ubiquitous approach. This is Microsoft’s approach. Try to support (or to get manufacturers to support) as…
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“You are not the user” should be tattooed on the insides of the eyelids of every techie everywhere. http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/16/why-did-google-decide-to-split-inbox-from-gmail/…
This is why I stay away from "web programming" :)
Quote from here: Over the past few months, I’ve been thinking more and more about the general frustrations around web programming in 2014. For example: * There are more programming languages than t…
Lanier on AI
The idea that computers are people has a long and storied history. It goes back to the very origins of computers, and even from before. There’s always been a question about whether a program is someth…
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It’s not something you read over lunch with Jimmy John’s in hand. http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/24alae/has_anyone_actually_read_any_of_the_the_art_of/…
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We lost sight of what mattered for our users, focusing on features that were nice but perhaps not as necessary as we thought. We overengineered. We didn’t get rid of the crufty unnecessary features. I…
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That’s right, you can have Go built from scratch to installed in less time than it takes traditional automake style tools to finish. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/JwGywP16a5c/N2Xi…
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The ideal situation occurs when the things that we regard as beautiful are also regarded by other people as useful. Donald Knuth…
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Go ahead, kids, spackle over all of that unsightly runlevel stuff. Paint over init and cron, pam and login. Put all of that into PID1 along with dbus. Make it all pretty and whisper sweet nothings abo…