actively practice code removal
Once we liberate ourselves from the mental cage of thinking of AI as akin to ourselves, we can recognize that it’s just another pile of math that can transform one kind of input into another – that is, software
We should only optimize where we can get a significant improvement
Software engineering is in many ways a very pathetic field, because so much of it is anecdotal and based on people’s judgments or even people’s aesthetic judgments
But if you ask Perl its opinion, it will advise you on matters of taste
Another good but boring software company trying to be too big for its shoes and pretending to be broad-spectrum-disruptive
behavioral ads aren’t necessary to provide a social network
mod_rewrite should be considered a last resort, when other alternatives are found wanting
Benchmarks tend to be a measure of configuration competence, rather than of server quality
I wrote to its author asking if GNU could use it. He responded derisively, stating that the university was free but the compiler was not