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aycangulez

  1. Beware of the Turing Tar-Pit … in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy. bit.ly/wrU5iQ
  2. @psvensson Didn't read that one, but I hope it works for you.
  3. Spaghetti-Western Coding bit.ly/z4VMYy
  4. Innovation and the Bell Labs miracle bit.ly/zqbrrK
  5. How software art was used to generate the special FX in Tron: Legacy bit.ly/AkDQ4l
  6. Writing unit tests is reinventing functional programming in non-functional languages bit.ly/ykrHxD
  7. Haskell: Pure and lazy, yet functional bit.ly/zQDAWr
  8. "The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life." - J. Hische
  9. "Keep talking about brands and you know what you’ll get? Bad clothes. Bad hair. Bad books. Bad movies. And bad records." - Courtney Love
  10. Prophetic article from Courtney Love about the future of the recording industry bit.ly/xq53P4
  11. The Next Mainstream Programming Language: A Game Developer’s Perspective [pdf] bit.ly/yCivSM (via @id_aa_carmack)
  12. On being sufficiently smart bit.ly/yESmfs
  13. Purely Functional Retrogames bit.ly/AFeg3O
  14. "If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident." - Rob Pike
  15. "It is better to solve the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way." - Richard Hamming
  16. "The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex." - Chekhov (circa 1890)
  17. @obruchez Exactly!
  18. "The moment a man begins to talk about technique, that’s proof that he is fresh out of ideas." - Raymond Chandler
  19. "Nothing is more dangerous than a programmer who doesn't know what he doesn't know." - Ted Dziuba
  20. Relativistic Programming bit.ly/ybOUes