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It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature
Prototype, then polish. Get it working before you optimize it
Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages surveyed here and you will find a core implemented in pure, portable C
The only way to write complex software that won't fall on its face is to hold its global complexity down - to build it out of simple pieces connected by well-defined interfaces, so that most problems are local and you can have some hope of fixing or optimizing a part without breaking the whole
Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world
Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time
A software system is transparent when you can look at it and immediately see what is going on. It is simple when what is going on is uncomplicated enough for a human brain to reason about all the potential cases without strain
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)
In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower than the general population? That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.
Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.
Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.
The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user
Why the hell hasn't wxPython become the standard GUI for Python yet?
A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.
For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.
Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot.
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Alchemists turned into chemists_x000D__x000D_when they stopped keeping secrets.
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