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Mickens has some great material. He gave a talk at Monitorama a few years ago that's one of my favourites: https://vimeo.com/95066828

The article paints the plight of systems programmers in a hilarious way. I think programmer humour is rarely this well written, although a recent piece comes to mind by aphyr: https://aphyr.com/posts/340-acing-the-technical-interview

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SICP takes that a step further by also defining car and cdr (http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/html/2_002e1.xhtml#g_t2_002...):

  (define (cons x y)
    (define (dispatch m)
      (cond ((= m 0) x)
            ((= m 1) y)
            (else 
             (error "Argument not 0 or 1:
                     CONS" m))))
    dispatch)

  (define (car z) (z 0))
  (define (cdr z) (z 1))

Mickens is my favorite. His piece about theoretical vs practical security in tech is awesome.

Link?

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf

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