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Tipping my hat, Sir.

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Pike on debugging and The One True Fact.

"There's a bug. What's the ONE thing you know, for a fact? You know for a fact that that bug happened. [...] That is a FACT. And whatever else that fact tells you, it's really important to figure out why it happened. You start from the fact that the failure occured and what that failure tells you about the work." [around 26:30 in the recording]

Oh, such a beautiful, graceful talk. Full of bits of wisdom, small and large, about software, about work and collaboration, about personal development for the long haul. Presented with wit and warmth. Beautiful. Thank you for sharing!

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"We must understand their properties and how to choose and combine wisely, but we must ignore most of the detail and depend on intuition [...]."

Beautifully put. The art of making.

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"Complexity just happens, and its costs are literally exponential.

On the other hand, simplicity takes work --- but it's all up front.
Simplicity is very hard to design, but it's easier to build and much easier to maintain. By avoiding complexity, simplicity's benefits are exponential."

Brilliant analysis in this talk, relevant to so many fields. Thank you!

@climagic Somewhat related: in a #GooglePlus post by #RobPike, he explained a bit about how dotfiles came to be hidden: https://web.archive.org/web/20190324222536/https://plus.google.com/101960720994009339267/posts/R58WgWwN9jp?hl=en