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A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate.

Educate

Programming

Smart

Caches aren’t architecture, they’re just optimization.

Architecture

Cache

Optimization

Data dominates. If you’ve chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.

Algorithms

Data

Self

Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.

Building

Thinking

Trying

Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.

Algorithms

Fancy

Learning

If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don’t want to know what they’re better than.

Good Things

Thread

Want

Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.

Language

Programming

Trying

Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination

Imagination

Not only is UNIX dead, it’s starting to smell really bad.

Programming

Smell

Starting

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

Computing

Design

Roman Numerals

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Modern

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Quotes by Rob Pike

Rob Pike

A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate.

Caches aren’t architecture, they’re just optimization.

Data dominates. If you’ve chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.

Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.

Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.

If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don’t want to know what they’re better than.

Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.

Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination

Not only is UNIX dead, it’s starting to smell really bad.

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

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