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Re:Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @07:04AM (#47424088)
There's also:

>I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

-- Linus Torvalds

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Re:Malleable Software Will Eat the SaaS World on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @05:36AM (#45037311)
Is this just low code all over again, except this time with some nondeterminism thrown in?
It's also interesting that in the middle ages, the standard was to put east on top.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Hereford...

Re:The Case of the Fake Sherlock on Friday April 14, 2023 @08:36AM (#35568841)
> Walter refused several requests for an interview. “You have earned one’s distrust that merits severing any contact with you in the future,” he wrote me, veering into strange pronoun usage. “Under no circumstances would himself cooperate in your suspicious activities.”

Sharply written articles like this are a rare treat.

I've actually been using an (ancient) build of Evince for Windows [0] for quite some time now.

[0] https://www.fosshub.com/Evince.html

Re:Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux on Saturday September 11, 2021 @10:59AM (#28492479)
It's really amazing how well you can play on Linux now that Proton came out. There's only a handful of games that I need to boot into Windows for. On Linux most games work just as well as in Windows. ~10 years ago playing on Wine was a pain.