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Compilers was was known to be the hardest CS class at Cornell which was hard as it is. We were handed a 8-page PDF at the start of sem for a language spec we'd be implementing by the end of sem, split into 6 parts. On part 5, the median was a 0/100 and most the class failed.... See more

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Programming as Theory Building

Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" discusses programming as a knowledge-building activity, emphasizing the importance of tacit knowledge, collaboration, and effective documentation in developing and maintaining software systems.

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You and Your Research

Richard W. Hamming's lecture emphasizes the importance of pursuing significant research, setting high personal goals, and fostering confidence, creativity, and dedication to achieve excellence in one's career and contributions.

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Still haven't found the original story but here is one https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/…

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From one of my favorite Hacker News comments ever, by @Jonathan_Blow: https://t.co/uJgib4x6El

Nabeel S. Qureshi

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Meanwhile, a lower cost to creating new programs also means a shorter half-life for a given piece of code

Byrne Hobart • Software is the new Hardware

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Friendly reminder about this post by the creator of Ruby on Rails. https://t.co/cYVHsuSKGV

major tom

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gold mine from @thekaranchawla on a variety of systems programming subjects, especially the distributed world (my actual day job) also, Andrew Kelley's talk on DOD mentioned https://t.co/pKn7PWS04n

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So... Claude Code just optimized HVM3 to 328 MIPS per M4 Core (+51%)... And it then created a CUDA version for it. ... This is serious. Since HVM3-Nano is now just ~5K tokens, it easily fits on Sonnet's context. I literally just asked... See more

Taelin

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