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rsav | 5 days ago | on: Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)

There's also:

>I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

-- Linus Torvalds

rsav | 4 months ago | on: AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS

Nobody gets fired for buying IB^H^H AWS

rsav | 6 months ago | on: Malleable Software

Is this just low code all over again, except this time with some nondeterminism thrown in?

rsav | 2 years ago | on: A medieval map that made cartography into a science

It's also interesting that in the middle ages, the standard was to put east on top.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Hereford...

rsav | 2 years ago | on: The Case of the Fake Sherlock

> Walter refused several requests for an interview. “You have earned one’s distrust that merits severing any contact with you in the future,” he wrote me, veering into strange pronoun usage. “Under no circumstances would himself cooperate in your suspicious activities.”

Sharply written articles like this are a rare treat.

rsav | 3 years ago | on: A circuit simulator that doesn't look like it was made in 2003

I've actually been using an (ancient) build of Evince for Windows [0] for quite some time now.

[0] https://www.fosshub.com/Evince.html

rsav | 4 years ago | on: Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux

It's really amazing how well you can play on Linux now that Proton came out. There's only a handful of games that I need to boot into Windows for. On Linux most games work just as well as in Windows. ~10 years ago playing on Wine was a pain.