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Apr 22
"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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Apr 21
"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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Apr 21
"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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Apr 20
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
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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Apr 20
"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." – Dennis Ritchie
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Apr 13
"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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Apr 11
'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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Mar 28
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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Mar 28
'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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Mar 28
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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Programming Wisdom retweeted
28 Jul 2025
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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14 Jul 2025
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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6 Jun 2025
As AI-generated code becomes the norm, irreverent comments become a form of human watermarking.
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4 Jun 2025
"The secret to optimization is changing the problem to make it easier to optimize." – John Carmack
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3 Jun 2025
"Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time." - Linus Torvalds
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2 Jun 2025
"What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months." - Fred Brooks
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2 Jun 2025
(And one developer with ten AI agents can fail to bother finishing at all? 😏)
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28 May 2025
"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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10 Feb 2025
"Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding." - Burt Rutan
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