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Explaining the Unexplainable

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Knight (Playing Card)

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Worse is Better is Worse (2000) [pdf]

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The Myth of Self-Describing XML (2003) [pdf]

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Nulls Nullified (2005)

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Atlas Autocode (1963)

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Why shouldn't we allow nulls? (2011)

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Dijkstra's Letter to the Council (2001)

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Edsger Dijkstra's Convocation Speech (1996)

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Manifesto on the Teaching of Mathematics (2015)

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74 points·by declanhaigh·hace 3 años·38 comments

Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

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Ontological Commitment

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1 points·by declanhaigh·hace 3 años·0 comments

Beware the Integrated Tests Scam (2023)

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1 points·by declanhaigh·hace 3 años·0 comments

German Tank Problem

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Is Ramen Unhealthy? An Experts Take (2022)

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A Plea for Lean Software (1995) [pdf]

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Reflections on Trusting Trust (1984) [pdf]

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Don't Write Tests (2017)

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East Asian character emojis ㊗ 🈶 🈯 🈳 (2016)

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Real World Haskell (2008)

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declanhaigh
·hace 3 años·discuss
Ken Thompson once made a similar point about compilers and trust but in terms of security:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...