Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom

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 Joined October 2011

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MIT CSAIL @MIT_CSAIL

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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 &…

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86

2 months ago

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

3 months ago

As AI-generated code becomes the norm, irreverent comments become a form of human watermarking.

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Jake @JustJake

3 months ago

Called shot: AI will help software engineers become product managers faster than product managers becoming software engineers

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Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom

3 months ago

"The secret to optimization is changing the problem to make it easier to optimize." – John Carmack

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"Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time." - Linus Torvalds

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"We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run." – Amara's Law

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Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom

7 months ago

"Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding." - Burt Rutan

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"Most won't care about the craft. Cherish the ones that do, meet the rest where they are." – Chris Kiehl

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"Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work." – Martin Fowler

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"Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back." – Unknown

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“Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence boils down to curiosity.” - Aaron Swartz

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"Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking." – Unknown

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"Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do." – John Carmack

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"Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter." – Eric Raymond

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Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom

8 months ago

"There are only two hard problems in distributed systems: 2. Exactly-once delivery 1. Guaranteed order of messages 2. Exactly-once delivery." – Mathias Verraes