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  1. "The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise" - Edsger Dijkstra 8:10 AM May 25th via Buffer
  2. An interview with Ward Cunningham over at Dr. Dobb's: drdobbs.com/architecture-a… (he covers technical debt, OO design, Perl and more) 8:10 AM May 23rd via Buffer
  3. "Make it work first before you make it work fast." - Bruce Whiteside 8:10 AM May 21st via Buffer
  4. What's That Programming Language? wtpl.heroku.com - another quiz, but harder this time. Read code, guess the language. 8:10 AM May 18th via Buffer
  5. PSA: @JavaScriptDaily is my sister account for JavaScript news and links. If you're into JS, Node, CoffeeScript, jQuery, etc. follow along. 7:46 AM May 18th via Buffer
  6. "One person's constant is another person's variable." - Susan Gerhart 8:10 AM May 16th via Buffer
  7. "When your hammer is C++, everything begins to look like a thumb." - Steve Haflich 8:10 AM May 14th via Buffer
  8. "The sooner you start to code, the longer the program will take." - Roy Carlson, University of Wisconsin 8:29 PM May 13th via Buffer
  9. Quiz! Identify the programming languages in 20 versions of "Hello, world!": infoworld.com/d/application-… 8:10 AM May 11th via Buffer
  10. An essay on the development of the C programming language by its creator, the late Dennis Ritchie: cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/… 8:10 AM May 9th via Buffer
  11. "Programming is an art form that fights back." - Unknown 6:28 PM May 8th via Buffer
  12. "OO makes code understandable by encapsulating moving parts. FP makes code understandable by minimizing moving parts." - Michael Feathers 8:10 AM May 7th via Buffer
  13. "The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible." - Joseph Weizenbaum 8:10 AM May 4th via Buffer
  14. "Programmers who refuse to keep exploring will stagnate, forget their joy and lose the will to program (and become managers)." - M Haverbeke 3:05 PM May 2nd via Buffer
  15. John Carmack (Id) explains how he can send an IP packet to Europe faster than he can send a pixel to his screen: superuser.com/q/419070/41986 5:23 PM May 1st via Buffer
  16. The C Conference is a.. C conference in San Diego this August: cconf.org (CFP & registration open now) 2:07 PM Apr 30th via web
  17. "Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make." - Douglas Crockford (JavaScript: The Good Parts) 4:57 PM Apr 28th via Buffer
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