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…Search of Certainty: The Science of Our Information Infrastructure (2013) , via my fortune database https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2016-09-08 · in Are Cities Too Complicated?

…If you'd like to read some further other anti-OO ("as practiced") quotes, see my fortune clone @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2016-07-24 · in Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming

…programming. - Rob Pike, Notes on C Programming (1989) ... from my fortune clone ( |grep data ) @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup ; I spoke at Code Generation 2010 (Cambridge, UK) but somewhat controversially for that environment do…

comment by contingencies · 2016-07-07 · in Nail: A practical tool for parsing and generating data formats (2014) [pdf]

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

comment by contingencies · 2016-06-21 · in Robotic Motion Planning in Real-Time

…Khan Ghalib, classical Urdu and Persian poet from the Mughal Empire ... quote #1 in my fortune db @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2016-02-09 · in How We Teach Programming, and Where We're Going Wrong

…whiteboard are 90% as effective as UML, and actually function for a general audience. (Quotes from https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup )

comment by contingencies · 2015-11-01 · in Ask HN: What are you currently learning in your spare time?

Yep. Try also with https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2015-09-04 · in Ask HN: What's your favorite CLI or ncurses program?

…in Carson (open 10-4PM Saturdays). [0] Added to 'Hackers of History' section of my fortune clone @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup [1] http://www.imprimerie.lyon.fr/imprimerie/ [2] http://www.ntm.cz/en [3] http://www.printmuseum.org/

comment by contingencies · 2015-08-01 · in The Birth of Standard Error (2013)

…unix philosophy but still unix philosophy-centric, check out my ansified fortune clone @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2015-06-26 · in The Unix Philosophy

…is, in essence, premature optimization. - AnimalMuppet ... lines of thought from my fortune clone @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2015-06-18 · in Ask HN: What are the best tools for analyzing large bodies of text?

…established method. Before optimizing, using a profiler. - Mike Morton ... from my fortune clone @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2015-05-12 · in Latency Tricks

…to voice, where one has to upgrade the entire core. - RFC3439 (2002) ... from my fortune clone @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2015-05-03 · in Alan Kay on Messaging (1998)

…University of California, Los Angeles Older favourites from lolmythesis, in my fortune clone @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2015-04-19 · in Lol my thesis – Summing up years of work in one sentence

…the supply of the resource. The reverse is not true. ... etc. quotes taken from my fortune clone @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2015-02-23 · in Netherlandish Proverbs (1559)

…throw some of them out after you've finished using them. - Doug McIlroy ... from my fortune clone @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2015-02-09 · in Show HN: Watch People Code

…Scientist' (2010) 10th Fundamental Truth of Networking: One size never fits all. - RFC1925 (1996) https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2015-01-23 · in LXC container networking deep dive

…Truth of Networking: It is easier to move a problem around than it is to solve it. ... RFC1925 via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2015-01-21 · in Chemical Weapon Munitions Dumped at Sea: An Interactive Map

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

comment by contingencies · 2015-01-21 · in Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness?

I went through each quote carefully while adding some missing ones to my fortune clone/database at https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup and noticed two things versus modern sources: (1) The weight lent to optimization related concerns…

comment by contingencies · 2014-12-01 · in Bumper-Sticker Computer Science (1985) [pdf]

TLDR - added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup ... Sin #1 - Unnecessary distributed parallelism: It does not always make sense to parallelize a computation. Doing so almost inevitably comes with an additional overhead, both in…

comment by contingencies · 2014-11-30 · in The Seven Deadly Sins of Cloud Computing Research (2012)

…not algorithms, are central to programming. - Rob Pike, Notes on C Programming (1989) via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2014-11-29 · in Ask HN: I've learned a programming language – how do I solve problems with code?

…and as well as introducing tighter coupling between components and layers. - RFC3439, via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2014-10-29 · in Announcing Beta For Local SSD

…which arguably results in greater intelligibility. Some relevant quotes from my fortune clone @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup ... You're not to come up with a simple design through any kind of coding techniques or any kind of…

comment by contingencies · 2014-10-20 · in Leslie Lamport on Distributed Systems and Precise Thinking

…of Certainty: The Science of Our Information Infrastructure , 2013) [1] Taken from my fortune clone https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2014-09-27 · in Quit Covering Up Your Toxic Hellstew with Docker

…ww.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/ju... The quote is part of my fortune replacement @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2014-08-25 · in Reverse-engineering censorship in China [pdf]

…those out. Added to my hacky color fortune clone (also converts to standard fortune format): https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2014-08-12 · in Why one of cybersecurity’s thought leaders uses a pager instead of a smart phone

Cute! Added to my ruby/ANSI-enabled, architecturally-oriented fortune alternative https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup :)

comment by contingencies · 2014-06-08 · in RFC 2616 is dead

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Ruby+ANSI TAOUP fortunes

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