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1.

Please read the paper before you comment

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6 years ago

719 points

2.

Donald Knuth was framed

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6 years ago

632 points

3.

Six programming languages I’d like to see

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4 years ago

481 points

4.

Why do we call it “boilerplate code?”

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4 years ago

422 points

5.

Why do arrays start at 0?

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4 years ago

413 points

6.

Advice for new software devs who've read all those other advice essays

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3 years ago

399 points

7.

Raku: A language for gremlins

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3 years ago

393 points

8.

Excel is pretty dang cool

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4 years ago

376 points

9.

Software engineering research is a train wreck

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5 years ago

372 points

10.

Donald Knuth was framed (2020)

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4 years ago

358 points

11.

I prefer rST to Markdown

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2 years ago

355 points

12.

Maybe people do care about performance and reliability

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3 years ago

342 points

13.

I have complicated feelings about TDD

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4 years ago

323 points

14.

Microfeatures I'd like to see in more languages

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3 years ago

297 points

15.

Don't write documentation in Markdown

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6 years ago

286 points

16.

Uncomfortable Truths in Software Engineering

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5 years ago

268 points

17.

Problems harder than NP-Complete

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3 years ago

254 points

18.

Formally modeled Dreidel for no good reason

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2 years ago

243 points

19.

A brief introduction to interval arithmetic

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2 years ago

221 points

20.

If Inheritance is so bad, why does everyone use it?

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2 years ago

198 points

21.

Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel

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6 years ago

196 points

22.

Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020)

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2 years ago

195 points

23.

Software Mise En Place

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4 years ago

188 points

24.

Why UML “Really” Died

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5 years ago

182 points

25.

On Scaling Mental Models

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6 years ago

147 points

26.

Edge Case Poisoning (2020)

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4 years ago

142 points

27.

Collecting and curating material is good and we should do it more

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3 years ago

141 points

28.

Programming AIs worry me

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3 years ago

137 points

29.

Read “Data and Reality”

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4 years ago

136 points

30.

The seven specification ur-languages

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3 years ago

132 points