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If thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.

You can if that data point happens to be Linus Torvalds. Or Ken Thompson.

Lisp machines. Expert systems. Functional languages: Scheme, Ocaml, etc. Itanium. OpenStack.

It's much easier to produce quickly something horrible without much thought, report it to manager as done, be seen as "gets shit done fast" and get promoted than to take time and e…

They should apply the same principle to their cafes. "Our food preparation is left incomplete as a symbol..."

What would the things of Troy, be to you, Achaeans, without Helen? Insomnia. Homer. Taut canvas. Half the catalogue of ships is mine: that flight of cranes, long stretched-out line…

See: Brouder.

Heilbroner. The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers.

Usenet. Slashdot. Reddit. The best we had. Here we go...

Reselling Western goods such as jeans that weren't available in stores is a very different story.

A combination of several well-known principles: - "everything around is Soviet, everything around is mine", - "they pretend they pay us salary, we pretend we work" (in this order),…

It's bread and circuses all over again.

So how did we get from infinetly flexible live GUI to html / CSS / JS / npm / framework du jour / a herd of transpilers / webpack current mess?

200+ comments. Why this never made HN front page?

Do not build a movement, build a religion. Even better payoff, longer lasting and ridiculously easy to market to naive.

So what you really need is a full public disclosure of expenses in addition to public salary information.

Considering that most programming is done in Javascript, Python, Java, etc these days, CPUs clearly don't affect majority of programmers at all.

Lisp syntax is particularly ill-suited for humans.

What you say is a perfect example of a conspiracy theory.

That's several years of utter mismanagement blamed on a single developer that was overloaded way beyond capacity.