American freedoms are strange. A person who doesn’t have enough to eat has the right to complain about it as much as they want, but they don’t have a right to something to eat.
— Chinese exchange student
Но все это не должно быть поводом для отчаяния. Серьезно. Мы не должны отчаиваться, потому что в любом реальном кризисе пессимисты умирают первыми.
Коммунизм, капитализм, социализм, да что угодно - у нас до сих пор не было ни одной экономической системы, которая бы учитывала, что мы живем на живой планете
the value of a promotion is not in the reduced price, but in the reduction in price
I think what you meant to say is that Apple paid Next 400 million dollars to take over Apple
Nobody expects the Smalltalk language system. Our chief weapon is polymorphism… polymorphism and objects…objects and polymorphism. Our two weapons are objects and polymorphism… and inheritance… Our three weapons are objects, and polymorphism and inheritance… and an almost fanatical devotion to contexts…
Our four…no…
Amongst our weapons… Amongst our weaponry… are such elements as objects, po…
I’ll come in again.
If you’re streaming or downloading video, some percentage of your audience is probably living in a third-world country like the United States, with limited broadband access, slow speeds, and monthly bandwidth caps.
It’s nice to have all your physical needs met before you write, but if you convince yourself that you can only write in a perfect world, you compound the problem of finding 20 free minutes with the problem of finding the right environment at the same time. When the time is available, just put fingers to keyboard and write. You can put up with noise/silence/kids/discomfort/hunger for 20 minutes
I still haven’t met a great programmer who doesn’t have a job.
When a Perl job is advertised today you already know when the project was started
Scheme is an exotic sports car. Fast. Manual transmission. No radio.
Emacs Lisp is a 1984 Subaru GL 4WD: “the car that’s always in front of you.”
Common Lisp is Howl’s Moving Castle.
If you don’t know why it works, it probably doesn’t-you just don’t know it yet.
— Steve McConnel, “Code Complete” (via
TheTumbler)
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