{josuah.net} | {panoramix-labs.fr} (DIR) • {josuah.net} (DIR) • {panoramix-labs.fr} {git} | {cv} | {links} | {quotes} | {ascii} | {mail} (DIR) • {git} (BIN) • {cv} (DIR) • {links} (DIR) • {quotes} (DIR) • {ascii} ━━━━━━ Quotes ━━━━━━ Other people sayings that I could want reading again, because they express an awesome natural language ingenuity. Profpatsch: ┊ You have the lawful good approach, which is something like quickcheck, and ┊ the chaotic good approach, which is something like AFL. The lawful evil ┊ approach is a chaos monkey, and the chaotic evil approach is “just throw ┊ your shit on the internet and see what DDoSers come up with“ skarnet: ┊ When I was born, the fairy who blesses (?) people with an undying ┊ attraction for discussion of documentation formats had severe diarrhea so ┊ she didn't attend my birth, for which I am grateful to her because fae ┊ diarrhea is something else. dmbaturin: ┊ When brain implants become feasible, I’ll make a module that prevents me ┊ from writing until I’m fully awake. newmanbe: ┊ Have you suggested turning the computer off? Usually the advice for ┊ computer problems is to turn it off and then on again, so this might ┊ through them off a bit. (HTM) {Roy Fielding}: ┊ Some architectural styles are often portrayed as “silver bullet” ┊ solutions for all forms of software. However, a good designer should select ┊ a style that matches the needs of a particular problem being solved. (HTM) {Roy Fielding}: ┊ REST is designed to be efficient for large-grain hypermedia data transfer, ┊ optimizing for the common case of the Web, but resulting in an interface ┊ that is not optimal for other forms of architectural interaction. Ori_B: ┊ we don't happen to have any utils for that, do we? wait. we have. skarnet: ┊ building pyramids is easy too if you just delegate the work to your army of ┊ slaves cl: ┊ nothing is designed anymore everything is just historical accidents and ┊ hype plan9 kernel iseve() checking user permissions: ┊ Originally the stand-alone file server kernel ran as adm, so whoever you ┊ run the cpu/terminal kernel as became eve. khm, about plan9 venti: ┊ it's from the Caesar; vidi venti vuduavi: literally, "I saw venti, I was ┊ deprived [of my data]" (HTM) {Leslie Lamport}: ┊ A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't ┊ even know existed can render your own computer unusable. heliocat: ┊ These days the analogy is still fairly valid, only everyone has a cheap ┊ mainframe in the form of a laptop, every single thing has a crippled potato ┊ computer in it, and there isn't any way to own the meta-computer that ┊ arises from all of it. We've given that to amazon and google Alan Perlis: ┊ When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say ┊ what I wish done", give him a lollipop. Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill in *The Art of Electronics*: ┊ Don't anthropomorphize computers... they don't like it. (HTM) {ZipCPU}: ┊ If you want a design to work across the boundaries of multiple engineering ┊ teams, then you really need to get the engineers responsible for each ┊ portion of the design together into the same room and lock them in there ┊ until it works. Someone: ┊ In the end, we do not need software/hardware that do not fail. We need ┊ software/hardware that fail in the right moment: during initial tests, not ┊ after it is deployed... Which is even harder than not-to-fail if you ask ┊ me. (HTM) {@Reducible}: ┊ If your mind is not blown yet, you have not been paying attention. (HTM) {John Carmack}: ┊ Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul. (HTM) {Bob Widlar}: ┊ Every idiot can count to one. ggg: ┊ If you wanna make something sweet you better add some salt into it too. WeirdFaceMan about FPGAs: ┊ Simulation is salvation. Without it you're half-wit. Eric Bogatin: ┊ Do not consider that things to work *thanks* to how we design them, ┊ consider them to work *in spite* of how we design them. MadCamel: ┊ The definition of a submarine is not a ship that can go underwater, but a ┊ ship that can go back up. (HTM) {Thomas Pornin}: ┊ I have long been of the opinion that a good software project must be ┊ written at least three times: once to understand the problem, once to ┊ understand the solution, and once to actually write it properly. (HTM) {Poster in the NASA / Jet Propulsion Lab cafeteria}: ┊ Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling ┊ down the highway.