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People of ACM – Russ Cox

68 points by signa11 ago | 10 comments

pluralmonad |next [-]

Cloudflare says I'm not allowed to view the page. At least they are protected from "attacks."

pbohun |next |previous [-]

Russ also has a great blog, with the most recent entry on fast floating-point printing and parsing. I believe these performance improvements have landed in the latest version of Go. https://research.swtch.com/fp

shaftoe444 |next |previous [-]

> Software engineering is what happens to programming when you add time and other people.

Cthulhu_ |root |parent |next [-]

The book Software Engineering at Google goes into this (all factors of programming at scale / over time), worth a read.

tmoertel |root |parent [-]

It's available online for free: https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book

And, yep, it's worth a read.

ignoramous |root |parent |next |previous [-]

Then a new term is warranted for what happens to programming when we add prompts & agents.

arccy |root |parent [-]

don't we already have the words slop and vibecode

pstuart |root |parent |previous [-]

An amazing distillation of the craft.

dchest |next |previous [-]

I recently learned that Russ also wrote software for The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (https://oeis.org) and is the president of the OEIS Foundation.

SA9G |next |previous [-]

I love the "Tornado" term and "software debt"... worked with a few over the years, fixed the bug but broke the paradigm. Well articulated wisdom.

Transformanshen |previous [-]

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