So Google is really a trust fund combined with the charities it supports?(I suspect that both of these are true, to some degree). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8509945…

The “Year of the Linux Desktop” has become a meme at this point, one that is used most often sarcastically. Yet there are still a lot of people who deeply hold onto it and think that if only Linux had…

I really like Java I am glad to have had the experience of programming in Java. I liked programming in Java mainly because I found it very relaxing. With a bad language, like say Fortran or csh, you…

I resolve to recognize that a complaint reveals more about the complainer than the complained-about. Authority is won not by rants but by experience and insight, which require practice and imagination…

The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can’t think of anything that isn’t cloud computing with all of these ann…

These things aren’t true because we don’t care and don’t try to stop them, they’re true because everything is broken because there’s no good code and everybody’s just trying to keep it running. That’s…

parallelismconcurrency http://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2014/04/09/parallelism-and-concurrency-revisited/…

The idea of a formal design discipline is often rejected on account of vague cultural/philosophical condemnations such as “stifling creativity”; this is more pronounced in the Anglo-Saxon world where…

… a proof is a program, the formula it proves is a type for the program. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspondence…

The equilibrium state of software is broken http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/2jagm6/guidance_needed_outdated_framework_company/…

Complete rewrites from scratch are never the answer, no matter how tempting. You might think that multiple refactors are going to take longer, but you’re completely forgetting to account for all the t…

Email needs to be disrupted about as much as the hammer needs to be disrupted. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8493619…