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“Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so-called ‘powerful’ programming languages belong to the solution set rather than to the problem set?”
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Make haste slowly.
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America 2020
Decades of full spectrum rot exposed to all when “the tide went out” via global pandemic. Banana republic dictator voted down, for now. Relief the majority of people pushed back; inexcusable that so many did not. I will never forget: The lying. The selfishness. The malevolence. The racism. The criminality. The weakness. The cowardice. The…
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The Criminals
These are the days that test your heart and soul. Strap yourself in for the American Fall. Day after day it is a crash and burn. Our nation hijacked by the criminals. Whoa oh.
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Racists
It’s in the things that you say and you don’t say. You don’t know it ’cause you’re such a fucking cliche. The way you define them and us. Those you fear and those you trust.
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Architecture Astronauts
When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don’t know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don’t actually mean anything at all. Joel Spolsky, “Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You”
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My Top 50 Movies of the Decade
Arrival (2016) Baby Driver (2017) Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) Birdman (2014) Black Panther (2018) Bladerunner 2049 (2017) Booksmart (2019) Boyhood (2014) Captain Fantastic (2016) Dallas Buyers Club (2013) Django Unchained (2012) Dunkirk (2017) Edge of Tomorrow (2014) Ex Machina (2015) Francis Ha (2012) Hell or High Water (2016) Her (2013) Hugo (2011) Interstellar…
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Debts must be paid
Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid. — Valery Legasov, Chernobyl (HBO)
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Litany Against Fear
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will…