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jamesdavidson

Re:Minix 3.3.0 on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @05:46PM (#8327290)
This is real hacker news!
Re:Medium’s CSS is actually pretty fucking good on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @06:16AM (#8256761)
Stylesheets seem such a small problem but evidently a lot of effort goes in to them. Medium is such an elegant platform.
Re:The Parable of the Perfect Connection on Saturday August 23, 2014 @10:50PM (#8217520)
Over the last few years I've noticed that writing code is pretty easy but robustness and graceful failure are what really set the best programmers' work apart.

To my fellow novice programmers, I recommend reading Joel Spolsky's great post called 'leaky abstractions', written in 2002.

Re:Amazon Drones - 60 Minutes [video] on Sunday December 01, 2013 @08:48PM (#6830751)
It’s a symphony of people, it’s a symphony of software, it’s a symphony of robots now. ~Jeff Bezos