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Programming wisdom and quotes throughout the years. The Knuth, the whole Knuth, and nothing but the Knuth, so help me Codd.

In the ALU on an 80186 Katılım Ekim 2011
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Programming Wisdom@CodeWisdom·
@chrisparkX Can you confirm that contray to what influencers are saying this does *not* mean you can read posts from lists you follow at $0.001 per post? `owned_lists` solely returns list metadata, and not the posts, and /lists/../tweets is not in the owned reads list.
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"Your personal character directly affects your ability to write computer programs. The characteristics that matter most are humility, curiosity, intellectual honesty, creativity and discipline, and enlightened laziness." - Steve McConnell
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"Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else." - Eagleson's law
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"First do it, then do it right, then do it better. [..] Write the messy first draft of the design doc. Ship the MVP that embarrasses you slightly. You’ll learn more from one week of real feedback than a month of theoretical debate." -- @addyosmani
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Air Katakana@airkatakana·
if i gave you the formula for coca cola right now and told you to go sell it, 5 years down the line you would probably have 0% of the soft drink market share. with literally coke and yet everyone expects ai-coded apps to be in widespread use after less than a year
wanye@xwanyex

I don’t have to be convinced that LLM’s make programmers more productive. But where’s all the stuff? We’ve now had months and months of 100x or 1000x programmet productivity improvements. Where’s all the stuff they’re building?

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"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." – Dennis Ritchie
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"You don't pay engineers to write code, you pay them to understand subtleties and edges of the problem. The code is incidental." – Ted Dziuba
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'Once a new technology starts rolling, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.' - Stewart Brand (co-founder of The WELL)
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Ted Moyses@TedMoyses·
@CodeWisdom Pinned in my computing lab at Leeds Uni: I do hate this computer I wish they'd go and sell it It won't do what I want Only what I tell it
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Programming Wisdom@CodeWisdom·
This has become even more important with AI. Possibly even a step further: it might do something you didn't tell it to do 😂
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'A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.' - Joseph Weizenbaum
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MIT CSAIL@MIT_CSAIL·
To give context on age, Grace Hopper began computing at 38, completed the first compiler at 46, helped shape COBOL at 53, kept developing COBOL for the Navy in her 70s, retired from the Navy at 80 & then became a consultant for the Digital Equipment Corporation. v/@cooperx86 & photo v/Cynthia Johnson & Getty Images
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Peter Cooper
Peter Cooper@cooperx86·
Software developers: Do you ever use any mnemonics on a frequent basis? If so, what are they? (Like in music how you have stuff like "Every Good Boy Deserves Favor" to remember EGBDF.)
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Peter Cooper@cooperx86·
As AI-generated code becomes the norm, irreverent comments become a form of human watermarking.
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Jake@JustJake·
Called shot: AI will help software engineers become product managers faster than product managers becoming software engineers
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"The secret to optimization is changing the problem to make it easier to optimize." – John Carmack
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Peter Cooper@cooperx86·
To put age into perspective: Grace Hopper first entered computing at age 38, completed the first compiler at age 46, influenced the design of COBOL at age 53, wrote COBOL for the Navy through her 70s, retired from the Navy aged 80 and *then* became a consultant for DEC(!) 😍
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"Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time." - Linus Torvalds
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@RealEmirHan I hate every ape I see, from chimpan-A to chimpan-Z. No, you'll never make a monkey out of me.
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