Feb
28
“The only difference between a bug and a feature is the documentation.”
— Anonymous
Feb
2
“Facebook will take the bold step of moving entirely into the cloud and shutting down its own data centers. Later it will be discovered that the cloud-provider they chose had, themselves, moved entirely into the cloud and shut down their data centers. After a few more recursive steps, it’s learned that the guy at the end of the chain had moved his operation into the Facebook cloud, and the entire service is hosted on thin air.”
— yacoset prediction for 2010
Jan
7
“My grandfather called me over to his house for a ‘computer emergency’ and gave me these blueprints for success.” — DefaultGen at reddit
Jan
6
“I can’t help but think of homeopathy when I stumble upon some SEO-related crap.”
Dec
24
“The romantic image of an über-programmer is someone who fires up Emacs, types like a machine gun, and delivers a flawless final product from scratch. A more accurate image would be someone who stares quietly into space for a few minutes and then says ‘Hmm. I think I’ve seen something like this before.’”
— John D. Cook
Dec
23
“The ultimate goal of computer science is to help produce better systems. Would you trust someone who had not seen a patient for years to teach surgery? What would you think of a piano teacher who never touched the keyboard? A CS education must bring a student beyond the necessary book learning to a mastery of its application in complete systems and an appreciation of aesthetics in code.”
— Bjarne Stroustrup
Nov
28
“You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.”
— Joe Armstrong, creator of Erlang, on the problems with object-oriented languages and software reuse
Nov
22
Go Syntax in Vim
Go comes with a syntax file for vim (in misc/vim). I had to tweak ~/.vimrc a bit to make it work nicer. noexpandtab will force vim to insert tabs instead of spaces, smartindent makes the editor keep new lines at the same level of indendation as the previous line.
augroup golang
au!
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.go set filetype=go
au FileType go set noexpandtab
au FileType go set smartindent
au FileType go set equalprg=gofmt
augroup END
