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Re:The Hardest Program I've Ever Written (2015) by moretai on Monday August 21, 2017 @03:13PM (#15066928)
where do people find quotes like this? Just reading a ton of books?
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Re:The Hardest Program I've Ever Written (2015) by khedoros1 on Monday August 21, 2017 @05:55PM (#15068148)
Reading one book (The Tao of Programming) would be sufficient (but not necessary) to be familiar with a lot of quotes similar to this one. Excerpts from that book are posted pretty often. I think that I probably ran into Tao of Programming around the time that I found The Jargon File, and some other things connected to classic hacker culture.
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Re:The Hardest Program I've Ever Written (2015) by npsimons on Monday August 21, 2017 @06:29PM (#15068307)
> where do people find quotes like this? Just reading a ton of books?

No lie, I've gotten more than one good book recommendation (including "Tao of Programming") from '/usr/games/fortune'. Also, if you find a book fascinating or highly informative, skim the bibliography for more like it.

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Re:The Hardest Program I've Ever Written (2015) by ColanR on Monday August 21, 2017 @06:46PM (#15068401)
what's "/usr/games/fortune"?
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Re:The Hardest Program I've Ever Written (2015) by sbierwagen on Monday August 21, 2017 @06:54PM (#15068461)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix)
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Re:The Hardest Program I've Ever Written (2015) by mturmon on Monday August 21, 2017 @04:17PM (#15067489)
If you have not seen them, these are enlightening:

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html

I especially like the power-cycle one, due to spending plenty of time in a lab debugging circuits.

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Re:The Hardest Program I've Ever Written (2015) by tnecniv on Monday August 21, 2017 @03:49PM (#15067261)
The source of that particular one is one of those classic pieces of hacker (not to be confused with cracker) culture that has been floating around for decades.
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