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mhoye

"Naming things" is just a semiotic proxy metric, the two real hardest problems in software are understanding yourself and understanding other people.

4 June at 15:35 | Open on mastodon.social
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Ted Mielczarek

@mhoye false, those are simply the two hardest problems in *life*.

4 June at 15:43 | Open on mastodon.social
Perish the thot :sparkles_bi:
Kartik Agaram

@mhoye

"Know yourself and your enemy, and you'll win every battle.

"Know yourself but not the enemy, and for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.

"Know neither the enemy nor yourself, and you will succumb in every battle."

-- Sun Tzu

Programming is just conflict by other means.

4 June at 19:22 | Open on merveilles.town
mhoye

@akkartik My perspective on Sun Tzu changed dramatically when I realized that his whole oeuvre is a Dr. Seuss level book amounting to "Oh, The Battles You'll Wage", in which he patiently explains to the local aristo failsons how to not give away the kingdom by accident during Baby's First War.

4 June at 19:55 | Open on mastodon.social
Sean Blakey

@mhoye @akkartik Now I want to read Dr Seuss's illustrated Art of War.

4 June at 20:00 | Open on hachyderm.io
Michal Migurski 🍉

@seanb @mhoye @akkartik “Appear star-bellied when you are plain-bellied and plain-bellied when you are star-bellied.”

4 June at 21:12 | Open on mastodon.social
szescstopni

@mhoye @munin "What am I trying to do? What are they're trying to achieve by making me do it? And why do they want me to do it in JavaScript?"

4 June at 21:11 | Open on qoto.org
Xilokar

@mhoye
I thought the hardest problem was ignoring the project manager

4 June at 21:59 | Open on mamot.fr
AN/CRM-114

@mhoye Wittgenstein’s _Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus_ is a programming book

4 June at 22:04 | Open on ioc.exchange
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