Sergej Chodarev

Programmer, teacher and researcher.
Assistant professor at Technical University of Košice

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

https://t.co/jKCIAEzai7

[Linux Handbook @LinuxHandbook]

No disrespect to Linus Torvalds, but this guy is the greatest geek alive 🫡

Created UNIX in 1971 when he was 28 years old.
Created Go in 2009 when he was 66 years old😲

He also developed the B programming language (which led to C), created UTF-8 encoding (making international text possible online), and designed essential tools like grep that developers still rely on daily.

He also helped with the development of Multics (that led to UNIX), Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems.

That's 4 operating systems in total... Most people don't even use these many OS.

Pretty impressive resume, right? 🔥

And it's a shame that many people, even the ones in the IT and tech industry, don't know him.

Ken Thompson.... Remember the name 🙏

[Daniel Lemire @lemire]

I made much of the furniture in my home. My wife cooks much of our food from
basic ingredients. I write my own software, I write my own textbooks, my own articles.

The idea that you are somehow ‘richer’ if you let other people do everything while specializing in your narrow field of expertise is pure utilitarian thinking. It is naive like only people who live on campuses can be.

What economists are telling you is that work has no innate value. It is all about what the work produces.

So if Joe receives 1000$ from the government, he is just as rich as if he had built something and made 1000$ of profit.

That’s obviously incorrect.

It matters to me that people use my software to solve their problems and that they are willing to pay me for my efforts. That has innate value above the money itself.

I an not looking to substitute my income for a passive one. I want to do work that matters.

I really feel sorry for the folks doing meaningless work such as preparing PowerPoint slides that nobody wants to watch.

Having expertise and applying it to get an income matters.

The food that my wife cooks is unlike what the market provides. Yes, she can outearn the market value of her food with her professional activities… but that’s silly. We want her food, not someone’s else.

Could my family be richer in financial terms? Absolutely. Why would I be building furniture instead of doing my professional work? That’s nonsense. Well that’s nonsense to someone who thinks that furniture is furniture. My furniture is unlike what the market provides.

At the level of a people… the same applies.

It matters to me as someone from Quebec that Denis Villeneuve is from Quebec.

It matters to Americans that they were first on the Moon.

Culture matters. What your kids do matter.

It is not all about GDP.

[Sergej Chodarev @sergejx]

Pamätáte si ešte, keď ste sa pripojili do platformy X? Ja áno! #MojeVýročieNaPlatformeX

[Computer Science @CompSciFact]

'The best theory is inspired by practice. The best practice is inspired by theory.' -- Donald Knuth

[Ricardo Quintero @iscrquinter]

Software is a compound word. The word “ware” means “product.” The word “soft” means easy to change. Therefore, software is a product that is easy to change. #CleanAgile @unclebobmartin ... wow !

Many years has passed to discover this ....

[Sergej Chodarev @sergejx]

V lete som znovu začal publikovať niečo vo svojom blogu. Napríklad fotografie z minuloročnej cesty do Prahy https://t.co/gqaZHCcJKt

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

The Creation of Adam is the iconic ceiling fresco which forms a central panel of Michelangelo's magnum opus, the Sistine Chapel ceiling, completed in 1512.

It depicts the moment in Genesis when God gives the gift of life to the first man, inspired by the passage: "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness."

A now-common observation is that God reaches out through what appears to be the prefrontal cortex of an anatomically correct human brain, represented here by a crimson cloak. This was the famous claim published by American doctor Frank Lynn Meshberger in 1990.

Although Michelangelo is not explicitly known to have studied the brain, he is well known to have been a master anatomist, who began conducting his own dissections as early as his teenage years.

As the prefrontal cortex is the key area of the brain which deals with creative thinking, and because Adam is depicted already alive and conscious, it appears God is not just giving life to Adam, but bestowing upon him the gift of artistic creativity - the talent that Michelangelo believed was a divine gift to him.

In the remarkable composition, the fingers of Adam and God famously do not touch, reflecting that man can never obtain divine perfection.

But my favourite detail is that the finger of God is fully extended whilst Adam's is not. The implication - to find God, we need only reach towards him as vigorously as he reaches towards us.

[Sergej Chodarev @sergejx]

I had the X in my username even before it became popular ;-)

[Matúš Sulír @MatusSulir]

57% of statically analyzed and 21% of dynamically analyzed Java methods called I/O, so it should not be ignored. Outside the Sandbox: A Study of Input/Output Methods in Java (with @sergejx @MilanNosal) at @ConfEASE. https://t.co/4XzxSBHNzs

[mir @mircealungu]

I am so tired of the "waterfall is bad" strawman. Didn't people learn that nobody ever argued for a "waterfall" approach to software engineering?

[Daniel Lemire @lemire]

The truth literally sets you free. Once you refuse to lie, you build up your moral strength. Weak people cave easily.

Every time you repeat the lie, you get weaker. Face your fears and become someone people can trust to speak the truth.

[Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks]

This is a really good explanation of and reminder about ChatGPT. The deep want of people (even my smart friends) to believe it is doing more is so disconcerting. There is no miracle. A new, rather tricky, tool, yes, but we're still going to have to get through life on our own.

[Daniel Lemire @lemire]

New York Times:

“There is just no evidence that masks make any difference, Full stop.”

What about N-95 masks, as opposed to lower-quality surgical or cloth masks?

“Makes no difference — none of it”

https://t.co/XWis12G50b

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If AI saves people from having to write, it will also save them from having the ideas that writing engenders.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

One of the most dangerous trends of our times is making the truth socially unacceptable, or even illegal, with "hate speech" laws.

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

The machines are already writing the code. Those machines are called compilers.

We, programmers, simply specify the solution in sufficient detail so that the machines can write the code.

Specifying the solution in sufficient detail will _always_ be a human endeavor.

[mir @mircealungu]

"not even God would get a grant today" :)

[John D. Cook @JohnDCook]

@vivekhaldar “When words lose their meaning, people lose their freedom.” — Confucius

[Madi Hilly @MadiHilly]

MYTH: We don't have a solution to nuclear's "waste problem"

REALITY: Nuclear waste isn't a problem. In fact, it’s the best solution we have to meeting our energy needs while protecting the natural environment!

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