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We All Know We Can Build Startups, But Can We Build a Duck?

“The eleventh commandment was “Thou Shalt Compute” or “Thou Shalt Not Compute” – I forget which.” – Alan Perlis My goal in writing this article is to give us all a nice “Automata Theory” Baader–Meinhof effect. You may be thinking you’re not exceedingly familiar with Automata, a topic I hold very near and dear to

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The Secret Weapon That Built $300 Billion in Startups

“Design patterns are bug reports against your programming language.” – Peter Norvig: Director of Research at Google During a particularly quotable Q&A session with Java Inventor James Gosling, someone asked him: “If you could do Java over again, what would you change?” “I’d leave out classes,” he replied. After the laughter died down, he explained

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Is Software Engineering Still an Oxymoron?

“Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.” – Alan Perlis Thought it might be fun to bring up one of the most heated debates in programming. I wonder if I’m in a particularly contentious mood today…. Originally, when the internet was envisioned by Alan Kay in the 60s, he knew before anybody else

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