The Unix Philosophy
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The Unix Philosophy
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Re: The Unix Philosophy
#2People will hang shit on ESR, but The Art of Unix Programming is one of my all time favourite books. If you haven't read it, even if you're not a *nix developer, do yourself a favour and just skim the table of contents... something may pique your interest and you may learn a thing or two.
It's also free online:
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#3People will hang shit on ESR, but The Art of Unix Programming is one of my all time favourite books. If you haven't read it, even if you're not a *nix developer, do yourself a favour and just skim the table of contents... something may pique your interest and you may learn a thing or two. It's also free online: http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/
It's a really great read and did a lot to inform my approach to writing all kinds of software. It's a shame that I cringe to recommend in now due to the politics of its author.
Re: The Unix Philosophy
#4People will hang shit on ESR, but The Art of Unix Programming is one of my all time favourite books. If you haven't read it, even if you're not a *nix developer, do yourself a favour and just skim the table of contents... something may pique your interest and you may learn a thing or two. It's also free online: http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/
It's a really great read and did a lot to inform my approach to writing all kinds of software. It's a shame that I cringe to recommend in now due to the politics of its author.
That's really bizarre. A person's political views have no bearing on the validity or usefulness of what they write.
Re: The Unix Philosophy
#5in case of mankind extinction, we should preserve the above text and pass it on to the next race.
Re: The Unix Philosophy
#6People will hang shit on ESR, but The Art of Unix Programming is one of my all time favourite books. If you haven't read it, even if you're not a *nix developer, do yourself a favour and just skim the table of contents... something may pique your interest and you may learn a thing or two. It's also free online: http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/
This book is ESR's masterwork, and that's taking into account everything else he's done.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a really great read and did a lot to inform my approach to writing all kinds of software. It's a shame that I cringe to recommend in now due to the politics of its author.
That's really bizarre. A person's political views have no bearing on the validity or usefulness of what they write.
That's a bizarre statement in itself. Of course it does.
Re: The Unix Philosophy
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a really great read and did a lot to inform my approach to writing all kinds of software. It's a shame that I cringe to recommend in now due to the politics of its author.
That's really bizarre. A person's political views have no bearing on the validity or usefulness of what they write.
Undoubtably a deep philosophical argument, but brighter minds than ours have written at length about it both in science and jurisprudence. "Research ethics" and "Exclusionary rule" would be good illustrating Wikipedia articles.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's really bizarre. A person's political views have no bearing on the validity or usefulness of what they write.
Undoubtably a deep philosophical argument, but brighter minds than ours have written at length about it both in science and jurisprudence. "Research ethics" and "Exclusionary rule" would be good illustrating Wikipedia articles.
Out of interest, what are these political views that are so terrible that they should influence our views of his thoughts on operating system design?
Edit: I really don't have any idea what they are...
Re: The Unix Philosophy
#10the rule of separation makes me wonder if the long term legacy of Wayland will be as a hardware accelerated backend for X.