No. 294024 [PM]
Fortune
Price Wang's programmer was coding software. His fingers danced upon
the keyboard. The program compiled without an error message, and the program
ran like a gentle wind.
Excellent!" the Price exclaimed, "Your technique is faultless!"
"Technique?" said the programmer, turning from his terminal, "What I
follow is the Tao -- beyond all technique. When I first began to program I
would see before me the whole program in one mass. After three years I no
longer saw this mass. Instead, I used subroutines. But now I see nothing.
My whole being exists in a formless void. My senses are idle. My spirit,
free to work without a plan, follows its own instinct. In short, my program
writes itself. True, sometimes there are difficult problems. I see them
coming, I slow down, I watch silently. Then I change a single line of code
and the difficulties vanish like puffs of idle smoke. I then compile the
program. I sit still and let the joy of the work fill my being. I close my
eyes for a moment and then log off."
Price Wang said, "Would that all of my programmers were as wise!"
-- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
No. 294025 [PM]
>>294024used to watch this guy btw, back around internet bloodsports and whatever drunkpeasants(amazing atheist podcast) time and a few years after
even read his book lol (it wasn't wrong per se, but a bit basic)
used to agree with a lot of his takes
last thing i heard his autistic down syndrome wife went missing/got killed/escaped his breeding dungeon
Rated: 1/5Fortune
HERE LIES LESTER MOORE
SHOT 4 TIMES WITH A .44
NO LES
NO MOORE
-- tombstone, in Tombstone, AZ
(YOLO) No. 294096 [PM]
that bitch is so annoying lol
No. 294118 [PM]
Just listened to this on the second monitor
What a horrible person! I hate her already. She's not autistic, just a high level early fake nerdy girl of sorts