“Things that are traditionally sync don’t have to “feel” sync. Things that are traditionally async don’t have to “feel” async. Be intentional and bridge the gap when you need.”— Dan Abramov, twitter.com
“But overall, whenever a programmer writes a program, they generally keep a vague outline of a proof of correctness in their head. Sometimes that proof is incomplete or wrong — humans are fallible — but it always guides the writing.”— Arthur B., hackernoon.com
“The disorder of the desk, the floor; the yellow Post-it notes everywhere; the whiteboards covered with scrawl: all this is the outward manifestation of the messiness of human thought. The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.”— Ellen Ullman, amazon.com
“When somebody has learned how to program a computer … You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.”— Tim Berners-Lee, amazon.com
“One projects one's expectations of God onto the white noise as if the noise were signals; one bears the voice of God in the Noise.With a bit of proper programming under the right conditions, with the right dose, at the right time, one can program almost anything into the noise within one's cognitive…”— John C. Lilly, amazon.com
“Often complexity is generated when there is no willingness to recognize that a non fundamental goal of a project is accounting for a very large amount of design complexity, or is making another more important goal very hard to reach, because there is a design tension among a fundamental feature and…”— Salvatore Sanfilippo, antirez.com
“On line 1252 of Module ORP572, I changed the hard-coded variable MonthsOfBacklog from "3" to "4". I unit tested this successfully and ran 2 batch test runs. The Operations work queue increased 10% as expected. This is good to go. I just submitted it to Code Review and moved in to Homer for User Acce…”— Ed Weissman, edw519.posthaven.com
“PHP as it's known today is actually the successor to a product named PHP/FI. Created in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf, the very first incarnation of PHP was a simple set of Common Gateway Interface (CGI) binaries written in the C programming language. Originally used for tracking visits to his online resum…”— PHP, php.net
“With a consistent language, well-crafted standard libraries, and cleaner DOM, Dart is a good choice even for programmers with limited or no JavaScript experience. Things work the way C, C#, ActionScript, and Java developers expect.”— Google Dart Team, webdev.dartlang.org
“I thought Elm was a pure, functional language, but this is one hell of a side effect.”— Mike Anderson, mkndrsn.com
“At 15:30:08 UTC on Sunday, 4 December 292,277,026,596 64-bit versions of the Unix time stamp would cease to work, as it will overflow the largest value that can be held in a signed 64-bit number. This is more than ten times the estimated age of the universe, which is 1.3x1010 years (13.7 billion), a…”— Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org
“The researchers showed that programmers' stress levels were a better predictor of the quality (and thus the maintainability) of their code than the more costly process of code-review, where another programmer checks a colleague's work before it is put into production, in order to ensure that it will…”— Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net
“Think of almost any television commercial: A person gets in terrible trouble, the product gets her out. A girl gets a pimple before the prom. She tries all sorts of things to get rid of it, making matters worse. Just when it looks like all is lost, she finds the miracle cream. It works, boyfriend sh…”— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.com
“Erlang promotes the least amount of error handling in favor of quickly crashing processes. To address error recovery, Erlang defines the concept a supervision tree—a hierarchy of watchdog processes whose only responsibility is to restart failed worker processes.”— Peter Hizalev, sameroom.io
“Erlang designers made a great tradeoff from the outset: immutability and single assignment (very uncommon in conventional programming languages), enforced by the VM.”— Peter Hizalev, sameroom.io