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…minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. Other good quotes here (fortune implementation): https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2026-09-29 · in Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over

Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup/

comment by contingencies · 2026-06-04 · in IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake

Those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. - Henry Spencer .. via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2026-05-29 · in SQLite is all you need for durable workflows

Nice one. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2026-05-07 · in The map that keeps Burning Man honest

…der Menschheit. "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." ... quote via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2026-05-04 · in New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag

Love it :) Excellent quippy summary of the zeitgeist. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2026-05-01 · in Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library

Nice one! Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2026-04-27 · in Chernobyl wildlife forty years on

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story by dtj1123 · 2026-04-23 · 0 comments

Nice one. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2026-04-22 · in Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price

Better list https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2026-04-21 · in Laws of Software Engineering

"Computers are useless, they can only give you answers" - Pablo Picasso, via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup I was looking at the fungi in my garden recently and realised there's such a variety of forms, there's no obvious reasons…

comment by contingencies · 2026-03-11 · in Fungal Electronics (2021)

Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup ;)

comment by contingencies · 2025-02-08 · in We are destroying software

…learners and who are in technology because they can't imagine doing anything else. Nice. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2025-02-04 · in Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (February 2025)

…Those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. - Henry Spencer ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2024-11-19 · in The tragedy of running an old Node project

Some nice pearls of wisdom in here. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2024-07-14 · in On Building Systems That Will Fail (1991)

…where identity and participation are much more important than progress... - Alan Kay (2016) ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2024-06-17 · in OpenBSD, the computer appliance maker's secret weapon

Nice one :) Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2024-05-09 · in The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day

…crucial property; Is loop-free connectivity. - Radia Perlman, inventor of spanning tree ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2024-05-02 · in Not all graphs are trees

Nice one. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2024-04-04 · in German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice

Cute quote - added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup :) I would add supply chain, however.

comment by contingencies · 2024-03-14 · in The Mythical Non-Roboticist

He who controls the data controls the learner. - @pmddomingos ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2024-01-07 · in NIST identifies types of cyberattacks that manipulate behavior of AI systems

I don't trust security people to do sane things. - Linus Torvalds (2017) ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2023-12-15 · in Unveiling Vulnerabilities: A Deep Dive into WiFi Camera Security

…a PIC MCU. In #devops is turtle all way down but at bottom is perl script. - @devops_borat ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2023-11-23 · in All design and engineering of the original Tesla Roadster is now open source

Nice one. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2023-08-25 · in Cyberpunk in the Nineties (1998)

…out like them. Think about that, that's got to be one of the dumbest ideas ever. - Alan Kay ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2023-06-20 · in Do you want your children to be like you? A programmer's perspective

To iterate is human, to recurse divine. - Peter Deutsch ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2023-06-11 · in Modern Life Is Rubbish: Tao Lin’s Taipei (2013)

…product or service) because it is faster than learning about the product yourself. - IDEO ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2023-06-07 · in Painful Lesson: Always 'Show and Tell' Your Product Before You Develop It

…You're moving too slowly, go faster. But if you're digging your grave, don't dig it faster. ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2023-06-07 · in Painful Lesson: Always 'Show and Tell' Your Product Before You Develop It

Sell, design, build. Nice one. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2023-06-07 · in Painful Lesson: Always 'Show and Tell' Your Product Before You Develop It

Fear not. Your wisdom is preserved at https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2023-06-01 · in Ask HN: Could Usenet get revived, to replace the soon to be unusable Reddit?

Nice. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2023-05-08 · in Vint Cerf on mistakes he made in TCP/IP

If you prefer fortune format try https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2023-01-29 · in Rules of Unix Design Philosophy

…document those failures, and learn as much as possible in the process. You can read more wisdom at https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2023-01-15 · in Ask HN: How did you become a “good enough” programmer?

…People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. - Alan Kay ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2022-12-07 · in The cloudy layers of modern-day programming

…LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. - Jeremy S. Anderson. ... quote via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2022-12-07 · in Losing the magic

Hardware has changed dramatically; software is stagnant. - Rob Pike (2000) ... added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2022-11-28 · in Unix's technical history is mostly old now

A Canadian chengyu ![0] Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengyu

comment by contingencies · 2022-10-28 · in The changing fortunes of Japanese camera manufacturers

…services. Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. - H. H. Williams ... quote via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2022-10-20 · in Ask HN: Has anyone managed to find enjoyment in their work after burnout?

…things are really severe. Really severe problems. - Joseph Henry Condon, Bell Labs ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup However, we have much better tools now, such as end to end / black box testing with mature client automation…

comment by contingencies · 2022-10-18 · in Real-World Engineering Challenges: Migrations

…is to treat any and all state within subsystems as a red flashing lights level liability. .. via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2022-10-13 · in The computer errors from outer space

…was that you had to look at the whole problem. - Joseph Henry Condon, Bell Labs ... quotes via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2022-09-20 · in Ask HN: How does your company handle late running projects?

…but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle. - Joe Armstrong ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2022-08-30 · in Becoming a Systems Architect

Between Plan 9 and Erlang we missed a bus somewhere. Love it. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup That's your second pithy wisdom tidbit. (The first was The idea that data is a corporate asset needs to die. Data is a corporate…

comment by contingencies · 2022-08-25 · in What have we lost? – Demo of exotic OSes (2021) [video]

…Always remember: Trust is the availability of effective recourse. - Dan Geer (2014) Quotes via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2022-08-05 · in Ask HN: “government is printing money” - what does it mean in practice?

Nice one. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2022-08-02 · in The hardest people for founders to hire are so called C-level executives

…cluster. - Schwarzkopf et al, 'The seven deadly sins of cloud computing research' (2014) .. via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2022-07-05 · in The SQLite Index Suggester

…is human. To propagate error to all server in automatic way is #devops. - @devops_borat ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2022-06-27 · in DevOps is a failure

In a sense, we have the printing press, but people are still illiterate. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup How about China? Like many fundamental technologies, the printing press and moveable type were Chinese inventions. But…

comment by contingencies · 2022-06-18 · in Do we need a better understanding of 'progress'?

…in the course of writing it, you rewrite and you rewrite and you rewrite. - Leslie Lamport ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup PS. Full disclosure: I spent today rewriting something I coded yesterday... but generated a lot of…

comment by contingencies · 2022-06-15 · in Write documentation first, then build

…engineering design is a statement. By the designer without the user. - Michael Sean Mahoney ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2022-06-10 · in Arduino raises $32M Series B round