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Prototype, then polish. Get it working before you optimize it
Eric S. Raymond
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Eric S. Raymond
Age: 66
Born: 1957
Born: December 4
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Eric Raymond
Eric Steven Raymond
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For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.
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In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes can anyone honestly think this is unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower than the general population? That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.
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Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.
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When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.
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The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.
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And for any agents or proxy of the regime interested in asking me questions face to face, I've got some bullets slathered in pork fat to make you feel extra special welcome.
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Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.
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Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.
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Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.
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Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages surveyed here and you will find a core implemented in pure, portable C
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Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.
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Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.
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The Wesnoth devs are good but not exceptionally so, and we're weighed down by a crappy implementation language (C++). Nevertheless our productivity, in terms of goals achieved per hour of work, is quite high.
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Why the hell hasn't wxPython become the standard GUI for Python yet?
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The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.
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Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone).
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Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer.
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With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow.
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Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.
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Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot.
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