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The Tao of Unix Programming (Ruby-powered ANSI colored fortunes)

228 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 3 stories, 225 comments · first 2014-05-29 · latest 2026-09-29

Mentions per year 228 mentions · busiest year 2022 (39)
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  1. Haha, awesome. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
  2. …programs. The first is functions, and the second is sequences of states. - Leslie Lamport .. via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup - see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_machine - and you won't regret learning…
  3. …of complex non-linear systems that can help one's thinking about them. - Alan Kay ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
  4. …Donald Knuth, 'The Errors of TeX' (1989) https://yurichev.com/mirrors/knuth1989.pdf (4.8MB) ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
  5. Love it. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
    comment by contingencies · 2022-05-23 · in Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model
  6. …time is finite, attention is rivalrous, and information is not infinitely actionable. ... added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
  7. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
    comment by contingencies · 2022-04-24 · in The Curse of Systems Thinkers
  8. …Science: off by one errors, cache invalidation and naming things. - Phil Karlton Quotes via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
  9. …require learning on the part of the beholder, not just bones tossed at puppies. - Alan Kay, via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
    comment by contingencies · 2022-04-10 · in Dall-E 2 illustrations of Twitter bios
  10. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
    comment by contingencies · 2022-04-09 · in Drone footage of Tesla factory
  11. …Law (Popular formulation): When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
  12. …saying planes don't fly unless they can fool birds into thinking they're birds. - Peter Norvig, via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup IMHO other intelligence tests are the same - they tend to measure familiarity with established…
  13. …that sometimes being a master class engineer all it takes is not using it. Love it. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
  14. …future-proofing exists by default. Interfaces before implementation. For more wisdom tidbits try https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup ;)
  15. AI is short for advertising industry at this point. Nice one. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
    comment by contingencies · 2022-03-13 · in Smart-TV blocklist for Pi-Hole
  16. Nice one. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
  17. There's a whole section of quotes on writing with applicability to programming in https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup Personally I think Lamport's statements on the subject are hard to disagree with.
    comment by contingencies · 2022-02-13 · in Putting Ideas into Words
  18. Added as Learc's Lamentation to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
  19. …of a machine you've never heard of stops you from getting any work done. - Leslie Lamport ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
  20. …- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, classical Urdu and Persian poet from the Mughal Empire ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
    comment by contingencies · 2022-01-05 · in OneBag: The Art and Science of Travelling Light
  21. https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup provides much of the same content but in fortune format.
    comment by contingencies · 2022-01-01 · in Hacker Laws
  22. Added attributed original to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
    comment by contingencies · 2021-12-10 · in Avoiding Internet Centralization
  23. …design regrets on the UNIX creat(2) system call and the fallacy of premature optimization) .. via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
    comment by contingencies · 2021-12-02 · in ImageMagick: CLI for Image Editing
  24. I maintain a large collection of pithy quotes on such matters: https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup Less in the self-help context, more in the process context, one I often appreciate for its simplicity is this: There are two models of…
    comment by contingencies · 2021-11-21 · in Ask HN: What mental models do you use everyday?
  25. All possible successor states of any state. - Leslie Lamport, via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
    comment by contingencies · 2021-10-31 · in Repeat Yourself, a Lot
  26. …job, pick the right framework which secures you extra work for being a tool. - @iamdevloper ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
    comment by contingencies · 2021-10-28 · in Software Architecture Patterns: 5 minute read
  27. If you like snippets in text consider the unix fortune tradition, I maintain https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup which produces bitesized memes in glorious ANSI color. Some startuppy, mostly software architecture/design focus, some more…
    comment by contingencies · 2021-10-05 · in Advice from YC founders and partners
  28. Haha. Added to taoup . https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
    comment by contingencies · 2021-09-27 · in Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in Lua
  29. …competition or oversight. Competition is for losers - Peter Thiel (2014 speech at Harvard) ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup Rights have to be regulated in to existence or actively fought for. These days the populace is so…
  30. Nice one. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
  31. Nice one. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
  32. …but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle. - Joe Armstrong ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
  33. More succinctly: Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. - H. H. Williams ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
    comment by contingencies · 2021-07-01 · in Move fast, but understand the problem first
  34. Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. - Einstein ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
  35. …of premature optimization) ... with respect for constrained environments, by way of contrast, via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
    comment by contingencies · 2021-05-24 · in Why Some Old Computers Are Interesting
  36. …keeping that quote! Apparently Robert Hilliard Barrow (1922-2008), USMC four-star general. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
  37. …is to learn things, because change is the constant thing that's going on. - Alan Kay (2017) ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
  38. …is really meaningful you should be able to express it in mathematics. - Leslie Lamport ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
    comment by contingencies · 2021-04-26 · in Has UML died without anyone noticing?
  39. Added to the substantial Alan Kay section of https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
  40. …grail. - Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, classical Urdu and Persian poet from the Mughal Empire .. via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup ... point being, sometimes expiring products are superior, it depends upon the use case.
    comment by contingencies · 2021-01-18 · in Review broken products instead of new ones
  41. …Law (Popular formulation): When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
  42. …pays for that with degraded performance on the set of all remaining problems). ... quotes via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup FWIW at my company we do embedded robotics, use ridiculously underpowered processors with very limited…
    comment by contingencies · 2020-12-31 · in Don't Use Protobuf for Telemetry
  43. …thinking stimulation purposes and are optimized for brevity. Many are derived from books or papers. https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
    comment by contingencies · 2020-12-27 · in Systems design explains the world: volume 1
  44. Timely and humanistic quote I added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup yesterday from the father of cybernetics... Who was I, a man whose proudest ancestor had led a life in a Moslem community, to identify myself exclusively with…
  45. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
    comment by contingencies · 2020-12-10 · in Games people play with cash flow
  46. …has been the mistress, and to her in all points make my appeal. - Leonardo Da Vinci ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
    comment by contingencies · 2020-10-15 · in Beware the Casual Polymath
  47. …tool might be you. Furious activity is no substitute for understanding . - H. H. Williams ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup [0] https://theconversation.com/most-successful-entrepreneurs-ar...
    comment by contingencies · 2020-09-21 · in We need young programmers; We need old programmers
  48. If you like these, try my fortune descendant at https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
    comment by contingencies · 2020-09-12 · in Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?
  49. Nice one. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
  50. Nice one. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup