Email or username:

Password:

Forgot your password?
Devil Lu Linvega's posts Post Back to profile
Devil Lu Linvega

For the past couple of weeks, I drink my morning coffee reading through the 2012 archives of LtU. I feel like each day I understand plt things a tiny little bit better.
angelfire.com/tx4/cus/lambda.h

9 Aug 2023 at 17:26 | Open on merveilles.town
6 comments
Kaiser Bill’s Batman

@neauoire Semi-related: It’s kind of mindblowing that Angelfire and Lycos are still around.

9 Aug 2023 at 17:33 | Open on infosec.exchange
Devil Lu Linvega

In Verner Vinge’s space opera A Deepness in the Sky, he proposes that one of this future’s most valuable professions is that of Programmer-Archaeologist. The Programmer-Archaeologist churns through this maddening nest of ancient languages and hidden/forgotten tools to repair existing programs or to find odd things that can be turned to unanticipated uses.
web.archive.org/web/2012030818

9 Aug 2023 at 17:35 | Open on merveilles.town
Jon-Pål Sætre
Ty Smith :verified: :verified:

@neauoire I work on a platform team in a giant big tech codebase. We've referred to one common type of work as archeology for years before ever reading Vernor Vinge. It's fitting.

9 Aug 2023 at 19:07 | Open on androiddev.social
Helvetica Blanc

@neauoire I think about that book and A Fire Upon the Deep almost weekly.

9 Aug 2023 at 21:34 | Open on merveilles.town
0gust1

@neauoire I remember being struck by that too. You just made me to read it again ^^
I’m also finishing « The Expanse » cycle, and there are some indirect mentions of this kind of skills (related to Naomi Nagata).

9 Aug 2023 at 21:49 | Open on merveilles.town
Go Up