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“Nobody, at least on the Unix side, had any idea they wanted it yet. Everyone uses them now but we had to spend a lot of time explaining to people why this was better than vi and GCC.” quote by Peter Seibel — Download Open image

““Nobody, at least on the Unix side, had any idea they wanted it yet. Everyone uses them now but we had to spend a lot of time explaining to people why this was better than vi and GCC.””

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“Things have gotten faster but the software has gotten slower and buggier in the meantime.”

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“Fitzpatrick: Back when I was doing Perl-even for people that knew Perl really well-I would recommend MJD's Higher-Order Per!. The book is really fun in that it starts somewhat simple and you're like, "Yeah, yeah, I know what a closure is." And then it just continues to fuck with your head. By the end of the book, you're just blown…

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“so we'll focus on the Windows side of things and then we'll port it later.” Which is what many other failed companies have done. If you're trying to ship a cross-platform product, history really shows that's how you don't do it. If you want it to really be cross-platform, you have to do them simultaneously. The porting thing results in…

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“one thing that separates good programmers from bad programmers is that good programmers are more facile at jumping between layers of abstraction—they can keep…

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“And he was like, “No, no, I really think we ought to do that.” And I was like, “We don't have time!” So he…

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“Zawinski: Sometimes. I end up doing all the sysadmin crap, which I can't stand-I've never liked it. I enjoy working on XScreenSaver because in some ways screen savers-the actual display modes rather than the XScreenSaver framework-are the perfect program because they almost always start from scratch and they do something pretty and there's never a version 2.0. There's very rarely…

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“Moore's law doesn't apply to batteries. So how much time we're wasting in interpreting stuff really matters there. The cycles count.”

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“When they realize, “Oh, my program's getting gigantic,” what are they going to do? They're not going to know where to start. That's my…

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“I always wish people would comment more, though the thing that makes me cringe is when the comment is the name of the function…

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“The experience of writing something in Java and then trying to figure out—I myself have trouble installing Java on my computer—it's horrible.”

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“nobody seemed to think programming is a solved problem: most are still looking for a better way to write software, whether by finding ways…

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