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…
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… Docker is a fancy name for LXC aka “chroots done right” (but with a ton more complexity). http://dabase.com/blog/Understanding_CoreOS/…
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I still stand by my statement that the “big one” linux exploit will somehow be tied to systemd. http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2014/09/23/end-of-linux/…
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If we start with a small language, then in most cases we can not say much at the start. We must first define more words; then we can speak of the main thing that is on our mind. Guy Steele, “Growing…
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Rust has been frantically trying to look more like Go and less like garbage in every release. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8585483…
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Mathematics, therefore, is essentially languageless. It is the activity of effecting non-linguistic constructions out of something that is not of a linguistic nature. http://plato.stanford.edu/entrie…