mcquainisms

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[mcquainisms @mcquain_isms]

"Get a Systems partner. If there's an odd number of people, we'll shoot someone."

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"Imagine walking through Central Park holding a 500 carat diamond in your left hand. Deadlock prevention is saying no, don't do that. Deadlock avoidance is doing it, but carring a big freaking gun with you."

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"If you read any of George R. R. Martin's new books, then you are a traitor to literature. He sold his soul to make that TV show. He's an asshole."

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"When someone comes to me with thousands of lines of assembler code in one .c file, I think to myself that they're a moron and tell them to go away. I don't want to look at that."

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"Everyone says that everyone should be taught to write code. No. That's like saying that everyone should be out on I-81 driving a big truck."

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"In this for loop, the parent kills its children. Wait, are the doors closed? You have to be careful with these things sometimes."

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"SSDs are faster than hard drives, but both are still glacially slow... I need to stop using that term. Glaciers are melting fast these days."

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"When my system crashed, I gave it the old three finger salute. CTRL+ALT+DEL"