"if you find yourself drinking a martini and writing programs in garbage-collected, object-oriented Esperanto, be aware that the only reason that the Esperanto runtime works is because there are systems people who have exchanged any hope of losing their virginity for the exciting opportunity to think about hex numbers and their relationships with the operating system, the hardware, and ancient blood rituals that Bjarne Stroustrup performed at Stonehenge"
So true, so funny.
Also, this article subtly conveys the experience of being a working class immigrant at a top academic institution (something that I relate hard to)
I’m inspired by this on so many levels. What a renaissance man.
> I warn you! This music is not for the faint of heart. Despite my lack of sound mixing experience, vocal training, or general common sense, I have created a poignant distillation of the human condition.
In 2020, my pandemic hobby project was learning to write a kernel in Rust (instead of sourdough like everyone else). Around that time, I read this essay for the first time. It was one of the funniest things I had ever read, because it hit me at the right time in my life to appreciate how true it was. An absolute gem.
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So true, so funny.
Also, this article subtly conveys the experience of being a working class immigrant at a top academic institution (something that I relate hard to)
> I warn you! This music is not for the faint of heart. Despite my lack of sound mixing experience, vocal training, or general common sense, I have created a poignant distillation of the human condition.
Now I find it relatable.
(don't install a signal handler in Python for SIGSEGV, especially if it's being triggered by C you're calling)
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I think this is my favourite piece of his, "This world of ours":
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf
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