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Peter Naur – Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf] (pages.cs.wisc.edu) |
| recommended by 5 users | 2016 | 225 points by vog | original thread | |
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The Grug Brained Developer (grugbrain.dev) |
| recommended by 4 users | 2022 | 1068 points by huimang | original thread | |
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“Dependencies (coupling) is an important concern to address, but it's only 1 of 4 criteria that I consider” (comment) |
| recommended by 3 users | 2016 | curun1r on: The Wrong Abstraction | original thread | |
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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (kalzumeus.com) |
| recommended by 3 users | 2010 | 176 points by philwelch | original thread | |
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Smaller Code, Better Code (sacrideo.us) |
| recommended by 3 users | 2017 | 137 points by jpt4 | original thread | |
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John Carmack on Inlined Code (number-none.com) |
| recommended by 3 users | 2014 | 456 points by m0nastic | original thread | |
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Preventing the Collapse of Civilization [video] (youtube.com) |
| recommended by 3 users | 2019 | 231 points by dmit | original thread | |
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Systems Design for Advanced Beginners (robertheaton.com) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2020 | 945 points by _ttg | original thread | |
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Always bet on text (graydon2.dreamwidth.org) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2014 | 355 points by walrus | original thread | |
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Rich Hickey: Simple Made Easy (infoq.com) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2012 | 176 points by kjbekkelund | original thread | |
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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (2010) (kalzumeus.com) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2019 | 150 points by rahuldottech | original thread | |
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Are statecharts the next big UI paradigm? (slideshare.net) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2017 | 142 points by sktrdie | original thread | |
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“By keeping the code as visible (read, small) as possible, I see more code” (comment) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2017 | arcfide on: Smaller Code, Better Code | original thread | |
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John Carmack on Inlined Code (2014) (number-none.com) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2016 | 395 points by rinesh | original thread | |
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Falsehoods Programmers believe about Time (infiniteundo.com) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2012 | 364 points by mcfunley | original thread | |
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So You Want to Write Your Own CSV code (tburette.github.io) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2014 | 158 points by Monkeyget | original thread | |
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Jonathan Blow – Preventing the Collapse of Civilization (youtube.com) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2021 | 139 points by keyle | original thread | |
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Naur’s “Programming as Theory Building” (2011) (catenary.wordpress.com) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2014 | 52 points by DanielRibeiro | original thread | |
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A Rational Design Process: How and Why to Fake It (1986) [pdf] (ics.uci.edu) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2016 | 18 points by nkurz | original thread | |
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A Philosophy of Software Design (web.stanford.edu) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2023 | 3 points by belter | original thread | |
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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers (2016) (github.com) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2019 | 451 points by striking | original thread | |
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You Are Not Google (2017) (blog.bradfieldcs.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2019 | 1623 points by gerbilly | original thread | |
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Choose Boring Technology (boringtechnology.club) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2019 | 1357 points by luu | original thread | |
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Steve's Google Platform rant (plus.google.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2011 | 1196 points by tRAS | original thread | |
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Choose Boring Technology (mcfunley.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2015 | 577 points by luu | original thread | |
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Always Bet on Text (2014) (graydon2.dreamwidth.org) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2021 | 570 points by asyrafql | original thread | |
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Dizzying but invisible depth (plus.google.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2011 | 541 points by rhdoenges | original thread | |
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Be Aware of the Makefile Effect (blog.yossarian.net) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2025 | 431 points by thunderbong | original thread | |
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Steve Yegge: Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus (plus.google.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2012 | 365 points by kungfudoi | original thread | |
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List of falsehoods programmers believe in (github.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2017 | 255 points by edward | original thread | |
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