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wicked problems are by definition either political or ideological Brilliant. https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup/commit/163a3618ba0d4e...

comment by contingencies · 2018-12-16 · in Why we suck at “solving wicked problems”

…than cleverness. - Eric S. Raymond, The Art of Unix Programming (2003) He's got a point. Quote via http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2018-12-15 · in You Can Do It in SQL, Stop Writing Extra Code for That

…is merely decades old. Also, their advice is better written. And funnier. - Peter Hilton ... via http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2018-11-04 · in You’re Not Managing a Team of Software Engineers, You’re Managing Writers

…work well than of complex ones that work flawlessly. - Marvin Minsky, MIT AI lab co-founder ... via http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2018-10-31 · in October 21 post-incident analysis

…up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done. - Peter Ustinov, via http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2018-09-30 · in Masayoshi Son, SoftBank, and the $100B Blitz on Sand Hill Road

…the job, pick the right framework which secures you extra work for being a tool. - @iamdevloper (via http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup )

comment by contingencies · 2018-09-24 · in Ask HN: Better tools for the software requirements / scoping phase?

Or try http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup for a more unix/software design focused fortune database in an implementation that supports color. Interoperable if you are an efficiency die-hard with a color blindness problem.

comment by contingencies · 2018-09-13 · in Today in History, Brought to You by Unix

Some good architecture related quotes here. Added to http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2018-08-03 · in In Pursuit of Production Minimalism

…because you're just going to be wrong with your grand design that you don't iterate on. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup ;)

comment by contingencies · 2018-07-08 · in An Interview with Andy Hertzfeld

…- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, classical Urdu and Persian poet from the Mughal Empire ... from http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2018-06-25 · in Darpa Literally Reinvented the Wheel for Army Combat Vehicles

…one part of the code overwhelms the rest. - Rob Pike, Notes on C Programming (1989) ... quotes from http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2018-04-17 · in Distributed architecture concepts I learned when building a large payment system

…to maintain proximity to insights I read in this space with a fortune database tailored to the area: http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2018-03-29 · in Ask HN: Any recommended resources to develop system thinking?

…useful. Prerequisite: Any course that used the term 'abstract base class.' - James Hague Quotes via http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2018-03-17 · in Inheritance Often Doesn't Make Sense

Cool quote, added to http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup :)

comment by contingencies · 2018-02-20 · in Ask HN: Ok. I have the MVP. I have a small feedback. What is next?

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

comment by contingencies · 2018-01-25 · in Ted Nelson on What Modern Programmers Can Learn from the Past [video]

…... Compare this to voice, where one has to upgrade the entire core. - RFC3439 (2002) From http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2018-01-10 · in Building for the Blockchain

…Science: off by one errors, cache invalidation and naming things. - Phil Karlton ... more at https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2017-11-28 · in Over-engineering is under-engineering

…simplicity and clarity, prototyping, Alan Kay's dream while you are awake , etc. Culled from http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup .. there are more there :)

comment by contingencies · 2017-11-21 · in Ask HN: Resources on how to improve abstract thinking skills?

Nice pick :) Added to http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2017-11-20 · in Reviving the 1973 Unix Programmer's Manual

…flat text files." / "Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface." http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup Since you were nominally optimizing for migration, a zoom-out perspective may be to note that…

comment by contingencies · 2017-11-08 · in Work on SQLite4 has concluded

Mann's Maxim: People who are bored think more creatively than those who aren't. ... added to http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup ;)

comment by contingencies · 2017-11-02 · in What boredom does to you

Great summary! Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup as 'Entropy's Edict'. (FYI: Passed over "Jobs' Jib", though it really does seem to shortcut the average serenade of the Steve Jobs worshipper with a concise and clear,…

comment by contingencies · 2017-10-28 · in Quality != Quality

Awesome quote. Added to http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2017-09-16 · in “There Is No Reason for Any Individual to Have a Computer in Their Home”

Relevant quotes from http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup ... Optimization considered harmful: In particular, optimization introduces complexity, and as well as introducing tighter coupling between components and layers. - RFC3439 Design…

comment by contingencies · 2017-09-12 · in What's So Bad About Posix I/O?

…Division. Inversion. - Claude Shannon (1954), a modern summary. ... added to my fortune database @ http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2017-08-28 · in Claude Shannon’s method for formulating and solving problems

…the automated system to the human operator. - Ashwin Parameswaran (2012) ... from my fortune clone @ http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2017-08-24 · in Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent Among Its Engineers

…not a literary form). This is a disaster. - Alan Kay (2016) ... from my fortune database @ http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2017-08-12 · in Fahrenheit 451: Not About Censorship, But People “Turned Into Morons by TV”

…steps have to be taken to deal with this major problem. - Alan Kay (2016) ... from my fortune clone, http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2017-08-02 · in Explaining Programming to Six-Year-Olds

…Meir M. Lehman, Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 68, No. 9, September 1980. ... from my fortune clone @ http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2017-07-28 · in What are potential disadvantages of functional programming?

…halfway decent funding since 1980 to be quite a chore. - Alan Kay (2016) ... from my fortune clone @ http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2017-07-27 · in The ImageNet dataset transformed AI research

…ex-CIA, Open Source Intelligence Expert in The Guardian , 2014-06-19 ... from my fortune DB @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2017-07-11 · in China Tells Carriers to Block Access to Personal VPNs by February

…is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke ... quotes from http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2017-06-11 · in Ask HN: Can programming be learnt completely on smartphone?

…local geothermal activity, hot springs, lakes, old architecture, nature, etc. Relevant quotes from https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup ... The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.…

comment by contingencies · 2017-06-08 · in Baby Bird from Time of Dinosaurs Found Fossilized in Amber

Haha. Added this commentary to the https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup fortune database in the section 'randoms on change'.

comment by contingencies · 2017-05-25 · in The Blockstack Browser: A Gateway to a New, Decentralized Internet

…A330/A340 aircraft in operation, and 397 had Northrop Grumman LTN101 ADIRUs. Relevant quote from https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup is Wiener's Eighth and Final Law: You can never be too careful about what you put into a digital…

comment by contingencies · 2017-05-13 · in The untold story of QF72: What happens when automation leaves pilots powerless?

…Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can. ... from my fortune clone @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2017-05-12 · in What type of software will you refuse to develop for ethical reasons?

…4. Meditate on and draw inspiration from timeless wisdom (eg. a good fortune database like mine @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup )

comment by contingencies · 2017-04-29 · in Ask HN: How do you keep improving?

Wow, some great stuff in here. Adding to my ANSI color fortune clone @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2017-04-21 · in Hints for Computer System Design (1983) [pdf]

AI is whatever hasn't been done yet. - Douglas Hofstadter (1980) ... via my fortune clone @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2017-04-19 · in Computers Create Recipe for Two New Magnetic Materials

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

comment by contingencies · 2017-04-09 · in Forget coding, we need to teach our kids how to dream

The best summary quotation I have in https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup is ... Upgrade cost of network complexity: The Internet has smart edges ... and a simple core. Adding an new Internet service is just a matter of distributing an…

comment by contingencies · 2017-04-03 · in Education of a Programmer

Some great quotes in here, though quite a few are effective restatements. As usual, added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup I particularly liked the light speed analysis technique, the bold statement that a clean start is a…

comment by contingencies · 2017-04-03 · in Education of a Programmer

…the same concerns outlined below, and do have the Thiel quote on MBAs in my fortune database - https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup - I am frankly leaning towards doing it anyway... if they'll take me. ;) I'll let you know in a few years!

comment by contingencies · 2017-04-01 · in MBAs as CEOs

These are both pretty good. Added to color fortune clone https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2017-03-01 · in Ask HN: Is S3 down?

…security, or any other property. In short, as the saying goes: Decisiveness is overrated .[0] [0] https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2017-02-28 · in Qualities that I believe make the most difference in programmers’ productivity

…I've chosen my models carefully. Perhaps you should have done the same. - @ML_Hipster ... from https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2017-02-13 · in Five Models for Making Sense of Complex Systems

…not about objects and classes, it's all about messages. - Alan Kay[0] [0] From my fortune clone @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2017-01-03 · in Classes Considered Harmful [pdf]

…alternatives: by parable, eventually including a rewrite in javascript that also reads email. [0] https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2016-10-22 · in How to Accept Over-Engineering for What It Really Is

…which you worry about how you actually implement this thing in code. - Leslie Lamport ... more @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup (which has a whole section of quotes 'writing with applicability to software')

comment by contingencies · 2016-10-07 · in How to begin a text

What an awesome quote! I've added it to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup (my fortune database .. have a browse)

comment by contingencies · 2016-09-17 · in Torrent Site Founder, Moderator and Users Receive Prison Sentences