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Alchimia della programmazione

Napolux — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:13:56 +0000

Programmer (n): An organism that can turn caffeine into code

Parole sante, reprise

Napolux — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:27:16 +0000

Computer: cretino ad alta velocità in dotazione, spesso, a cretini molto lenti.

Stefano Benni

HTML 5 Drag&Drop

Napolux — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:32:02 +0000

After spending about a day and a half in testing I am forced to conclude that the HTML5 drag and drop module is not just a disaster, it’s a fucking disaster.

Quirksmode

Statistica

Napolux — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:41:53 +0000

"USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population."

David Letterman

Tutti a scuola!

Napolux — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:13:35 +0000

A class, in Java, is where we teach objects how to behave.

R. Pattis

Fortran e C

Napolux — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:30:28 +0000

The architecture of almost every computer today is designed to optimize the performance of Fortran programs and its operating-system-level sister, C.

Richard Gabriel

Cellulari VS Computer

Napolux — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:47:00 +0000

“I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.”

Bjarne Stroustrup

Come mai mi ci ritrovo?

Napolux — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:19:00 +0000

You know, when you have a program that does something really cool, and you wrote it from scratch, and it took a significant part of your life, you grow fond of it. When it's finished, it feels like some kind of amorphous sculpture that you've created.

It has an abstract shape in your head that's completely independent of its actual purpose. Elegant, simple, beautiful. Then, only a year later, after making dozens of pragmatic alterations to suit the people who use it, not only has your Venus- de-Milo lost both arms, she also has a giraffe's head sticking out of her chest and a cherubic penis that squirts colored water into a plastic bucket.

The romance has become so painful that each day you struggle with an overwhelming urge to smash the fucking thing to pieces with a hammer."

Nick Foster ("Life as a programmer")

Parole sante

Napolux — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:45:37 +0000

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

N. Negroponte

Annulla, riprova, tralascia?

Napolux — Wed, 20 May 2009 05:26:00 +0000

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

D. Parnas

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Dumb inside…

Napolux — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:10:45 +0000

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

R. Feynman

Il tempo del software

Napolux — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:29:51 +0000

Why do we never have time to do it right, but always have time to do it over?
Anonymous Code Monkey

Linguaggio umano

Napolux — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:34:00 +0000

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

S. Papert
(in "Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas", 1980)

Unix e LSD

Napolux — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:24:00 +0000

“There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.”

Jeremy S. Anderson

Computer, pistole e tequila

Napolux — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:21:00 +0000

“A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.”

Mitch Ratcliffe