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Structured Programming notes by Dijkstra

oh and The Bible

imagine thinking counter-subversion is not justified

when your vacuum cleaner breaks your toes because it lost its GPS signal and went rogue

jokes aside it's fascinating that technology is even possible

>inefficient code increases your contribution to the suffering of others

this statement is a true fact in and of itself: i suffer get physical pain every time i come in contact with shitty software. no need for logical mental gymnastics or global warming shenanigans.

edit: for the sake of correctness, i'd rephrase the statement above:

>shitty software increases your contribution to the suffering of others

i was talking more about things like the "paseos".

https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paseo_(fusilamiento)

surely the purging of the right wing was not that big in numbers, given that most of it was in the other side of the war.

while this is most interesting in terms of the topics of orwell's works, it is quite a partisan view of the war.

the reality in Spain was not as simple as foreigners thought, namely "fascism" vs "democracy". in fact, the coup was done by a coalition of many different right wing factions, and amongst them there were right wing republicans and traditional absolutists, not just falangists (spanish catholic fascists). also, they were not the first, as the left already tried a coup just a few years earlier against the right wing government, but failed.

the social and political factors that lead to the war are very, very complicated AND interesting; they can be even more revealing than the history of the Weimar republic and its consequences.

here is a very interesting, neutral and historical insight in what happened in Spain in an informational format:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz3sqkplGm0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4AvQjCcih4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYE-kSbgZnU

Republican Spain had quite the Authoritarian cut at the time. The radical left was pretty much willing to purge anyone that was anything to their right, and they were the strongarm of the Republic.

> "Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so violent or genuine as it sounded." This attitude was, apparently, widespread among Germans at the time; many of them saw Hitler's anti-Semitism as a ploy for votes

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> Watch: Donald Trump's rise is a scary moment in America

every single time. if you can't see what's going on here, you wouldn't even if i explained.

my random choices NOW become my preferences

if only they hadn't reasons to believe them

read Dijkstra's "Structured Programming". it will improve your programming reasoning.