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Other people sayings that I could want reading again, because they express an | |
awesome natural language ingenuity. | |
Profpatsch: | |
┊ You have the lawful good approach, which is something like quickcheck, and | |
┊ the chaotic good approach, which is something like AFL. The lawful evil | |
┊ approach is a chaos monkey, and the chaotic evil approach is “just throw | |
┊ your shit on the internet and see what DDoSers come up with“ | |
skarnet: | |
┊ When I was born, the fairy who blesses (?) people with an undying | |
┊ attraction for discussion of documentation formats had severe diarrhea so | |
┊ she didn't attend my birth, for which I am grateful to her because fae | |
┊ diarrhea is something else. | |
dmbaturin: | |
┊ When brain implants become feasible, I’ll make a module that prevents me | |
┊ from writing until I’m fully awake. | |
newmanbe: | |
┊ Have you suggested turning the computer off? Usually the advice for | |
┊ computer problems is to turn it off and then on again, so this might | |
┊ through them off a bit. | |
{Roy Fielding}: | |
┊ Some architectural styles are often portrayed as “silver bullet” | |
┊ solutions for all forms of software. However, a good designer should select | |
┊ a style that matches the needs of a particular problem being solved. | |
{Roy Fielding}: | |
┊ REST is designed to be efficient for large-grain hypermedia data transfer, | |
┊ optimizing for the common case of the Web, but resulting in an interface | |
┊ that is not optimal for other forms of architectural interaction. | |
Ori_B: | |
┊ we don't happen to have any utils for that, do we? wait. we have. | |
skarnet: | |
┊ building pyramids is easy too if you just delegate the work to your army of | |
┊ slaves | |
cl: | |
┊ nothing is designed anymore everything is just historical accidents and | |
┊ hype | |
plan9 kernel iseve() checking user permissions: | |
┊ Originally the stand-alone file server kernel ran as adm, so whoever you | |
┊ run the cpu/terminal kernel as became eve. | |
khm, about plan9 venti: | |
┊ it's from the Caesar; vidi venti vuduavi: literally, "I saw venti, I was | |
┊ deprived [of my data]" | |
{Leslie Lamport}: | |
┊ A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't | |
┊ even know existed can render your own computer unusable. | |
heliocat: | |
┊ These days the analogy is still fairly valid, only everyone has a cheap | |
┊ mainframe in the form of a laptop, every single thing has a crippled potato | |
┊ computer in it, and there isn't any way to own the meta-computer that | |
┊ arises from all of it. We've given that to amazon and google | |
Alan Perlis: | |
┊ When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say | |
┊ what I wish done", give him a lollipop. | |
Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill in *The Art of Electronics*: | |
┊ Don't anthropomorphize computers... they don't like it. | |
{ZipCPU}: | |
┊ If you want a design to work across the boundaries of multiple engineering | |
┊ teams, then you really need to get the engineers responsible for each | |
┊ portion of the design together into the same room and lock them in there | |
┊ until it works. | |
Someone: | |
┊ In the end, we do not need software/hardware that do not fail. We need | |
┊ software/hardware that fail in the right moment: during initial tests, not | |
┊ after it is deployed... Which is even harder than not-to-fail if you ask | |
┊ me. | |
{@Reducible}: | |
┊ If your mind is not blown yet, you have not been paying attention. | |
{John Carmack}: | |
┊ Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul. | |
{Bob Widlar}: | |
┊ Every idiot can count to one. | |
ggg: | |
┊ If you wanna make something sweet you better add some salt into it too. | |
WeirdFaceMan about FPGAs: | |
┊ Simulation is salvation. Without it you're half-wit. | |
Eric Bogatin: | |
┊ Do not consider that things to work *thanks* to how we design them, | |
┊ consider them to work *in spite* of how we design them. | |
MadCamel: | |
┊ The definition of a submarine is not a ship that can go underwater, but a | |
┊ ship that can go back up. | |
{Thomas Pornin}: | |
┊ I have long been of the opinion that a good software project must be | |
┊ written at least three times: once to understand the problem, once to | |
┊ understand the solution, and once to actually write it properly. | |
{Poster in the NASA / Jet Propulsion Lab cafeteria}: | |
┊ Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling | |
┊ down the highway. |