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Sockets are the X windows of IO interfaces.
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There's no such thing as a simple cache bug.
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Bugs
Cache
Simple
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Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization.
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Cache
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Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.
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Programming
Smell
Starting
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Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.
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Computing
Roman Numerals
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Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination
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Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.
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Language
Programming
Trying
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Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.
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Learning
Algorithms
Fancy
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When there is no type hierarchy you don't have to manage the type hierarchy.
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Hierarchy
Programming
Type
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There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.
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Broken
Levels
Programming
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Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.
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Language
Listening
Unix
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A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate.
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Educate
Programming
Smart
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We're systems software people ourselves. We wanted a language to make our lives better.
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Software
Systems
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The process of software development doesn't feel any better than it did a generation ago.
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Software
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If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.
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Good Things
Thread
Want
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Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return
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Names
Return
Should
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Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.
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Exciting
Language
Programming
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Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.
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Building
Thinking
Trying
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When Steve Jobs died last week, there was a huge outcry, and that was very moving and justified.
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Jobs
Died
Huge
Justified
Moving
Steve
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Dynamic typing is not necessarily good. You get static errors at run time, which you really should be able to catch at compile time.
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Errors
Static
Typing
Catch
Run
Compile
Dynamic
Necessarily
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Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other.
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Engineering
Important
Management
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To write a kernel without a data structure and have it be as consistent and graceful as UNIX would have been a much, much harder challenge.
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Consistent
Data
Structure
Unix
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You have to make a decision whether it's a new product or you integrate it with an existing product. It takes time to work these things out.
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Decision
Time Work New
Existing
Integrate
Product
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Web servers are written in C, and if they're not, they're written in Java or C++, which are C derivatives, or Python or Ruby, which are implemented in C.
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Derivatives
Java
Python
Written
Implemented
Ruby
Web
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Go is an attempt to combine the safety and performance of statically typed languages with the convenience and fun of dynamically typed interpretative languages.
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Convenience
Fun
Safety
Attempt
Languages
Combine
Performance
Typed
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Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.
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Complicated
Modern
Simple
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Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX. The browsers are written in C. The UNIX kernel - that pretty much the entire Internet runs on - is written in C.
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Internet
Unix
Entire
Runs
Uses
Web
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We don't believe we've solved the multicore-programming problem. But we think we've built an environment in which a certain class of problems can take advantage of the multicore architecture.
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Architecture
Advantage
Environment
Solved
Take Advantage
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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.
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Algorithms
Data
Self
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Rule 1. You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try to second guess and put in a speed hack until you've proven that's where the bottleneck is
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Program
Speed
Trying
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