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“Systems program building is an entropy-decreasing process, hence inherently metastable. Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays the subsidence of the system into unfixable obsolescence.”
― The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
― The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.”
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“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”
― The C++ Programming Language
― The C++ Programming Language
Marxism
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Reading works by and about Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels.
Nick’s 2025 Year in Books
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