Cleaning up my room (lotsa links)

Cleaning up my room again, which means that I get to list all the papers I have in my room of things I printed out but never got to finish reading.

• Via LtU, The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture by C.A.R Hoare (PDF).
• John Levine: Challenge-response systems are as harmful as spam
• Something about Smarty and template inheritance?
• The Case for Shared Nothing (PDF)
• The Pournelle Political Axes
• Patterns, Hype, and Snobbery
• The Poetry of Programming

(man, I just found eight bank receipts from 1995!)

• Web-Tier Application Framework Design
• Double Predestination by R.C. Sproul
• About Multimodal ZVON

(Aww... my name tag for me and Mary for the prom... I'm such a packrat)

• Joel on Software: Microsoft Goes Bonkers

Which has one of my favorite quotes about abstraction I've ever read:

And if you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all.

• The Anti-Mac Interface
• Towards the Anti-Mac

(What's weird as I'm going through is that I'm finding things that no longer exist on the Internet. For some reason that feels very strange... that's not supposed to happen.)

• Let's Make Unix Not Suck
• Charming Python: Parsing with the Spark module

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