Eric S. Raymond
Eric S. Raymond
Eric Steven Raymond, often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, author of the widely cited 1997 essay and 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar and other works, and open-source software advocate. He wrote a guidebook for the Roguelike game NetHack. In the 1990s, he edited and updated the Jargon File, currently in print as the The New Hacker's Dictionary...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth4 December 1957
CountryUnited States of America
memories men data
Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code to incomprehensible data layouts, the results of obsessing about speed or memory or disk usage at the expense of transparency and simplicity are everywhere. They spawn innumerable bugs and cost millions of man-hours - often, just to get marginal gains in the use of some resource much less expensive than debugging time
machines preference expensive
Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time
memories management problem
The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management
cat hackers
It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature
stupid independent skin-color
That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.
problem realizing programming
Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.
programming release customers
Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.
firsts computer speed
The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.
class world sun
The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.
information firsts looks
On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the information monopolies, or will it go to developers and users?.
dog cousin animal
Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between animal territoriality and human property. Our domesticated cousins of the wolf are instinctively smarter about this than a good many human political theorists.
language implementation
and we're weighed down by a crappy implementation language (C++).
special asking agents
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.
iphone shapes trouble
The iPhone brand is in worse shape than I thought was even possible. And the implications of that are huge. ... The iPhone is in deep trouble.