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my-next-accounton Why Writing Correct Software Is Hard

It's not clear who said it first.

> I believe that Dijkstra's quote should be attributed to Mike Fellows, since it is fairly clear that Dijkstra heard it from him. Although the earliest appearance in print appears to be in our 1993 article, in my opinion Mike deserves sole attribution. He made up the part that is quoted so widely. I simply tacked on a bit at the end that nobody bothers to quote. Here it is again, correctly attributed for posterity.

Says this guy: ianparberry.com/research/cseducation/

But that's 1993, and MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986 has an extremely similar quote (though doesn't actually mention telescope + astronomy).

I'm writing this comment live, and I just found this! https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/04/02/computer-science/

Variations of this has been said by many people, over a fairly long period of time. Fascinating :-).

my-next-accounton ‘You Are Done’: The letter sent to King by the F.B.I (2014)

Jeeze, ya know. I don't get exposed to phobes sufficiently to know this. Typical dog whistle: Folks who are in the group know it, folks antagonized by the group know it, everyone else looks on with a question mark on their face.

my-next-accounton ‘You Are Done’: The letter sent to King by the F.B.I (2014)

I think it's typically quite obvious, or maybe I haven't seen the psycopaths. However, SWEs can be real dick heads. Just made me think of this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_5uVdy5YmA

Uploaded 16 years ago... I can't believe that a video I thought was so hilarious back then is dating me so hard.

my-next-accounton AI promised less work. I've never worked more

Yeah well, we have to express through action that we do not tolerate it.

my-next-accounton PSPi 6 – Raspberry Pi in a PSP

Can it run all PSP games?

my-next-accounton AI agents in a stand-up call

Do you basically know that quality of code hasn't declined based on the number of incidents that are occurring? How do you even know what is happening?

my-next-accounton The cost of lies: A Mineserver story

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49949438

There's also this. Well, RIP.

my-next-accounton A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap

You're probably coding for a 'runtime' in the broad sense: libc and your kernel.

my-next-accounton EDG C++ front-end goes public

What is this?

my-next-accounton America.gov

Ah yes, the famous singular country of Europe.

my-next-accounton Functional Mechanical Sympathy [video]

Race driver Jackie Stewart supposedly said “You don't have to be an engineer to be a racing driver, but you do have to have mechanical sympathy.”. Makes sense, to me, the race car is probably a bit closer to the way you'd treat your horse or something, to a driver.

Anyway, that's where we get the term from.

my-next-accounton Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't

These statements remind me of fitness influencer's showcasing their healthy brownies which "totally taste like the real thing".

my-next-accounton I am done with this shit

What do you reckon? We're screwed?

my-next-accounton I am done with this shit

This sounds like it's gonna explode in our faces, tbh.

my-next-accounton How to Write with an LLM

Wat, what am I paying for then?

my-next-accounton How to Write with an LLM

I use Astra at Very High, and shit is still bad. It doesn't actually understand anything, so it often says things which are clearly not needed to be stated. Recently, I've learned that I have very high standards for these things. For example, "fixes" as a commit msg just is NOT acceptable and would never fly where I work.

my-next-accounton Tell the speakers that you liked their talks

Thank you for sharing this!

my-next-accounton Show HN: ChaosTree – A zero-dependency Java tree library (AVL,RBT,B-Tree,B+Tree)

You can have both! You can of course implement the non-intrusive case on top of the intrusive one. I think that opens up interesting use cases with Valhalla.

my-next-accounton Show HN: ChaosTree – A zero-dependency Java tree library (AVL,RBT,B-Tree,B+Tree)

You should add an intrusive variant of all the trees.

my-next-accounton IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]

Yeah lmao, I get that.

my-next-accounton IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]

Yeah, but I'm pretty sure the voice over in the video is Swedish world strongest man winner Magnus Samuelsson.

my-next-accounton PISA 2025 Students' reading and mathematics performance declined across the OECD

Swedish scores sank for both Swedish and maths in "natives", 2nd gen and 3rd gen immigrants. Scores did not sink in Swedish for 1st gen immigrants. In other words: Everyone is getting worse, but some were already worse than others before.

my-next-accounton Highlighting My Code Based on How Much I Care

>Always seeking good, minimal, muted colour themes for my editors. I wish we had serious designers to design themes for usability and comfort, and not people that have no business playing with colours.

I think Prot's Emacs themes are good for this.

my-next-accounton Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]

I don't. I do them for my own satisfaction, not yours.

my-next-accounton Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]

Me, I do them.

my-next-accounton Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card

We purchased it from a machine recently. By the way, can I just say: Japan cares about UI in a very different way to Europe. The screens had pleasant graphics and sound, and the buttons for pressing in numbers felt so good. It just felt like someone who cares designed that machine. I did not like the refill-your-IC-card machines though, they made very loud noises so you wouldn't forget to take your IC card with you.

my-next-accounton Small Models Have Arrived

Are ya kidding me

my-next-accounton How much of HN is AI?

Hey dang, could you look Animats comment in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458418

Other folks are also calling it out as AI.

Thank you for your hard work bicep emoji

my-next-accounton Kusama Yayoi has died

I saw that exhibition at Louisiana :). Thank you for sharing!

my-next-accounton How much of HN is AI?

I aint got none.