diff --git a/tpl/cat-v/index.md b/tpl/cat-v/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index 82f0ed9..0000000 --- a/tpl/cat-v/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,37 +0,0 @@ -UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful -======================================== - -At the USENIX Summer Conference of 1983 [Rob Pike](http://herpolhode.com/rob/) -made a presentation titled '*UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful*' and -together with Brian Kernighan wrote the paper '*Program Design Design in the -UNIX Environment*' ([pdf version](unix_prog_design.pdf), [ps -version](unix_prog_design.ps)). - -This was a prelude for their famous book [The Unix Programming -Environment](http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/upe/) that today is considered *the -bible of Unix*. - -Unfortunately their advice has been completely ignored, and today Unix has become -overcome by exactly the kind of mistakes they warned against. - - - Bell Laboratories - - Murray Hill, NJ (dec!ucb)wav!research!rob - - It seems that UNIX has become the victim of cancerous growth at the hands of - organizations such as UCB. 4.2BSD is an order of magnitude larger than Version - 5, but, Pike claims, not ten times better. - - The talk reviews reasons for UNIX's popularity and shows, using UCB cat as a - primary example, how UNIX has grown fat. cat isn't for printing files with line - numbers, it isn't for compressing multiple blank lines, it's not for looking at - non-printing ASCII characters, it's for concatenating files. - - We are reminded that ls isn't the place for code to break a single column into - multiple ones, and that mailnews shouldn't have its own more processing or joke - encryption code. - - Rob carried the standard well for the "spirit of UNIX," and you can look - forward to a deeper look at the philosophy of UNIX in his forthcoming book. - diff --git a/tpl/default.tpl b/tpl/default.tpl deleted file mode 100644 index fccbe06..0000000 --- a/tpl/default.tpl +++ /dev/null @@ -1,119 +0,0 @@ - - - -%if (! ~ $#sidebar 0) { - -% } - -
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Most economic fallacies derive from the -neglect of this simple insight, from the tendency to assume that there is a fixe -d pie, that one party can only gain at the expense of another.*' - -'*A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives pe -ople what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want -. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freed -om itself.*' - -'*One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programmes by their intentio -ns rather than their results.*' - - diff --git a/tpl/economics/intellectual_property.md b/tpl/economics/intellectual_property.md deleted file mode 100644 index 308f309..0000000 --- a/tpl/economics/intellectual_property.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,39 +0,0 @@ -The 'intellectual property' oxymoron -==================================== - -"*If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive -property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an -individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the -moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and -the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is -that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. -He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening -mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. -That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the -moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to -have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, -like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any -point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, -incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in -nature, be a subject of property.*" -— Thomas Jefferson - - -Copyright ---------- - -Copyright infringement is not stealing, and copyright law is against the free -market, it is a government sponsored monopoly. - -Copyright law is routinely abused to suppress free speech and individual -freedoms, it is abused by recording companies to exploit artists, it is abused -by governments to control information. Copyright law is not only evil, it is -also stupid, and should be ignored by anyone that believes in a free society -and free markets. - -Bach, Shakespeare and Michelangelo didn't need copyright, we don't need copyright. -Copyright infringement is a victim-less crime, nobody has a right to have a -monopoly on ideas or information, you have a right to keep your ideas and -information private, but if you make them public, they are not your private -property anymore. - - diff --git a/tpl/economics/minimum_wage.md b/tpl/economics/minimum_wage.md deleted file mode 100644 index 7e7b750..0000000 --- a/tpl/economics/minimum_wage.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,29 +0,0 @@ -The unintended consequences of the minimum wage -=============================================== - -The minimum wage is one of the most persistent and pernicious economic policies, probably only surpassed in ineptitude by [rent controls](rent_controls) and [farm subsidies](subsidies). - -Economists have recognized for decades that minimum wage laws result primarily in increased unemployment among the most vulnerable sectors of society, specially poor unskilled teenagers of racial minorities. - -The amount of evidence to back this is huge, but still people refuses to accept that just because it sounds like a good idea to magically give poor workers a raise it doesn't mean that it actually works this way. - -Ironically the main groups that consistently lobby to raise the minimum wage are unions of skilled workers that already earn much more than the minimum wage, and big business in the retail market who offer salaries slightly above the minimum wage. - -This unholy union of unions and big business can be explained if one looks at the real consequences of raising the minimum wage: unskilled workers that might be able to compete with unionized workers thanks to their lower salary are put out of work safewarding the jobs of the well off unionized workers. At the same time small retail business that have very small margins are driven into bankruptcy by big corporations that take advantage of economies of scale and can afford to pay their workers salaries slightly above the minimum wage. - - -Alternatives ------------- - -If our goals is to improve the economic situation of disadvantaged workers probably the best known strategy is a negative income tax, this doesn't create negative incentives and preserves the existing positive incentives, it doesn't directly increase unemployment or hurt small business. - - -Links ------ -* [50 Years of Research on the Minimum Wage](http://www.house.gov/jec/cost-gov/regs/minimum/50years.htm) -* [Minimum Wage Teen-age Job Killer](http://www.ncpa.org/ba/ba292.html) -* [Santa Fe’s Living Wage and the Labor Market](http://www.epionline.org/study_detail.cfm?sid=90) -* [Spinimum Wage](http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=101606B) -* [Minimum Wage = Bureaucracy = Disaster](http://unbeknownst.net/?p=71) -* [Minimum Wage, Maximum Stupidity](http://www.larryelder.com/economics/minimumwage.htm) -* [The Sin of Wages: The real reason to oppose the minimum wage](http://www.slate.com/id/2103486/) diff --git a/tpl/economics/rent_controls.md b/tpl/economics/rent_controls.md deleted file mode 100644 index 8a81997..0000000 --- a/tpl/economics/rent_controls.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,9 +0,0 @@ -Rent controls -============= - -"*Rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city—except for bombing.*" -- Assar Lindbeck Swedish socialist economist - -Links ------ - -* [Rent Control](http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/RentControl.html) entry in the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. diff --git a/tpl/economics/subsidies.md b/tpl/economics/subsidies.md deleted file mode 100644 index 76fb145..0000000 --- a/tpl/economics/subsidies.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ -Subsidies considered harmful -============================ - -Farm subsidies are one of the most inept and outright evil economic policies ever invented, trillions of dollars are wasted every year in the world because of farm subsidies in developed countries, while driving into bankruptcy millions of farmers in third world countries. - -Millions of tons of food are thrown away because of the ridiculously stupid farm policy of the US and Europe while millions die of starvation. - -Links ------ -* [In 1985 New Zealand eliminated agricultural subsidies. What happened next?](http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=050907B) -* [Freeing the Farm: A Farm Bill for All Americans](http://reddit.com/goto?id=1lopk) -* [farmsubsidy.org](http://farmsubsidy.org) -* [So that's where the €100 billion went](http://www.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,,1995587,00.html) -* [http://www.heritage.org/Research/Agriculture/BG1542.cfm](http://www.heritage.org/Research/Agriculture/BG1542.cfm) -* [New Zealand's hardy farm spirit: how ending subsidies created a farming revolution](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/3747430.stm) -* [Farming without subsidies? Some lessons from New Zealand](http://www.newfarm.org/features/0303/newzealand_subsidies.shtml) - - diff --git a/tpl/index.md b/tpl/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index cdf123c..0000000 --- a/tpl/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,33 +0,0 @@ -Encyclopedia of things considered harmful -========================================= - -The world is full of things that most people think are OK or even good, when in -reality are either evil or plain stupid. - -This is my humble contribution to attempt to collect all all the things in the -world that bother me, if you think I'm missing anything important is missing, -please feel free to write an article about it and if I agree I will be happy to -add it to this site. - -***Note:*** I just got started, there are hundreds of things I would like to cover, I will try -to add a new entry every other day or so. - - -The main sections for now are: - -* [Software](/software/) -* [Economics](/economics/) - -You can also find other items in the left sidebar. - -Recommended sites -================= - -This are sites also dedicated at exposing the stupidity in our world: - -* [Bad Science](http://badscience.net) by Ben Goldacre - A great site about crackpot science. -* [James Randi Educational Foundation](http://www.randi.org/) -* [Johan Norberg](http://www.johannorberg.net/) - A Swedish writer devoted to globalisation and individual liberty -* [Free to Choose Media](http://www.freetochoosemedia.org/) -* [Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure](http://www.ffii.org/) -* [Electronic Frontier Foundation](http://www.eff.org/) diff --git a/tpl/science/global_warming.md b/tpl/science/global_warming.md deleted file mode 100644 index 0620332..0000000 --- a/tpl/science/global_warming.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,11 +0,0 @@ -Global warming scaremongering -============================= - -Anyone that questions that there is global warming is seriously delusional. But anyone who gets their scientific information from a 'documentary' by a politician is just as delusional. - -While there is no doubt that global warming is real, and there is no doubt either that human activity is at the very least one of the main factors contributing to it, it is not clear at all what the midium/long term consequences of global warming will be. That is reason enough to be careful, but only fools (or people with other agendas, like politicians and huge subsidized agribusiness ethanol producers) jump into scaremongering. - -Of course in the end everyone will believe whatever they want to believe, and reality and science be damned. - -There is a reason most scientists hate to speak to the media, they are systematically quoted out of context and manipulated for all kinds of agendas, of course that makes things even worse as most people can't be bothered to read scientific journals or go to scientific conferences for themselves, or much more importantly, don't understand how science works at all. - diff --git a/tpl/society/children/.i_dont_care.md.swp b/tpl/society/children/.i_dont_care.md.swp deleted file mode 100644 index a888b79..0000000 Binary files a/tpl/society/children/.i_dont_care.md.swp and /dev/null differ diff --git a/tpl/society/children/fuck_the_children.md b/tpl/society/children/fuck_the_children.md deleted file mode 100644 index 892c6f8..0000000 --- a/tpl/society/children/fuck_the_children.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,82 +0,0 @@ -George Carlin: - - Something else I'm getting tired of in this country is all this stupid talk - I have to listen to about children. That's all you hear about anymore, - children: "Help the children, save the children, protect the children." You - know what I say? Fuck the children! - - They're getting entirely too much attention. And I know what some of you are - thinking: " Jesus, he's not going to attack children, is he?" Yes he is! - He's going to attack children. And remember, this is Mr. Conductor talking; - I know what I'm talking about. - - And I also know that all you boring single dads and working moms, who think - you're such fucking heros, aren't gonna like this, but somebody's gotta tell - you for your own good: your children are overrated and overvalued, and - you've turned them into little cult objects. You have a child fetish, and - it's not healthy. And don't give me all that weak shit, "Well, I love my - children." Fuck you! Everybody loves their children; it doesn't make you - special. : : : John Wayne Gacy loved his children. Yes, he did. That's not - what I'm talking about. What I'm talking about is this constant, mindless - yammering in the media, this neurotic fixation that suggests that somehow - everything--everything--has to revolve around the lives of children. Ist's - completely out of balance. - - Listen, there are a couple of things about kids you have to remember. First - of all, they're not all cute. In fact, if you look at 'em real close, most - of them are rather unpleasant looking. And a lot of them don't smell too - good either. The little ones in particular seem to have a kind of urine and - sour-milk combination that I don't care for at all. Stay with me on this - folks, the sooner you face it the better off your going to be. - - Second, premise: not all chidren are smart and clever. Got that? Kids are - like any other group of people: a few winners, a whole lot of losers! This - country is filled with loser kids who simply...aren't...going anywhere! And - there's nothing you can do about it, folks. Nothing! You can't save them - all. You can't do it. You gotta let 'em go; you gotta cut 'em loose; you - gotta stop over-protecting them, because your making 'em too soft. - - Today's kids are way too soft. : : : For one thing, there's too much - emphasis on safety and safety equipment: childproof medicine bottles, - fireproof pajamas, child restraints, car seats. And helmets! Bicycle, - baseball, skateboard, scooter helmets. Kids have to wear helmets now for - everything but jerking off. Grown-ups have taken all the fun out of being a - kid. : : : What's happened is, these baby boomers, these soft, fruity baby - boomers, have raised an entire generation of soft, fruity kids who aren't - even allowed hazardous toys, for Chrissakes! What ever happened to natural - selection? Survival of the fittest? The kid who swallows too many marbles - doesn't grow up to have kids of his own. Simple stuff. Nature knows best! - - Another bunch of ignorant bullshit about your children: school uniforms. Bad - theory! The idea that if kids wear uniforms to school, it helps keep order. - Hey! Don't these schools do enough damage makin' all these children think - alike? Now they're gonna get 'em to look alike, too? : : : And it's not even - a new idea; I first saw it in old newsreels from the 1930s, but it was hard - to understand, because the narration was in German! But the uniforms looked - beautiful. And the children did everything they were told and never - questioned authority. Gee, I wonder why someone would want to put our - children in uniforms. Can't imagine. - - And one more item about children: this superstitous nonsense of blaming - tobacco companies for kids who smoke. Listem! Kids don't smoke because a - camel in sunglasses tells them to. They smoke for the same reasons adults - do, because it's an enjoyable activity that relieves anxiety and depression. - - And you'd be anxious and depressed too if you had to put up with these - pathetic, insecure, yuppie parents who enroll you in college before you've - figured out which side of the playpen smells the worst and then fill you - with Ritalin to get you in a mood they approve of, and drag you all over - town in search of empty, meaningless structure: Little League, Cub Scouts, - swimming, soccer, karate, piano, bagpipes, watercolors, witchcraft, glass - blowing, and dildo practice. It's absurd. : : : They even have "play dates", - for Christ sake! Playing is now done by appointment! But it's true. A lot of - these striving, and parents are burning their kids out on structure. I think - what every child needs and ought to have every day is two hours of - daydreaming. Plain old daydreaming. - - Turn off the internet, the CD-ROMS, and the computer games and let them - stare at a tree for a couple of hours. Every now and then they actually come - up with one of their own ideas. You want to know how to help your kids? - Leave them the fuck alone. - - diff --git a/tpl/society/children/i_dont_care.md b/tpl/society/children/i_dont_care.md deleted file mode 100644 index 73a9393..0000000 --- a/tpl/society/children/i_dont_care.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,58 +0,0 @@ - I Don’t Fucking Care About The Children. 18 December 2002 - - There. I said it. I don’t care about “the children” - and I don’t care about - protecting themselves. Keep your fucking plastic plates away from my outlets. - Keep your petitions to shut down the porno houses away from me, let I tear them - to bits and urinate upon them. If you tell me to throw away my books, violent - movies and games, or the like to keep the minds of children clean - I will tell - you to shove your head up your ass, fucker. This insane quest to protect “The - Children” is absurd! We coddle and we coddle the damn things and they still - turn out maladjusted… wait, maybe they wouldn’t turn out maladjusted if they - weren’t coddled! When children used to scream or throw tantrums or beat up - other children - they were usually PUNISHED! What a novel concept! Punishment! - Negative reinforcement for negative actions - how novel! - - Worst of all, is the foisting of the care and proper raising of these wastes of - sperm and egg onto the populace at large! This is of course, when it doesn’t - involve the actual mental raising of the child - such as setting limits, or - telling the damn thing what it can or cannot do. That will damage it’s precious - self-esteem! We can’t have that, can we?! So, if we can’t tell the child - they’re doing something wrong, dangerous or illegal - what can we do? We can - immediately cease and desist all enjoyable activities that children either - cannot, or shoud not be involved in. Activities such as reading books with foul - language, playing violent games, watching porn, having pre-marital sex, eating - unhealthy foods, or thinking for ourselves. - - Meanwhile, the parents will continue to funnel McDonalds and Easy Mac into - junior’s gaping maw because it’s easier than cooking a healthy meal. They will - continue to bitch about what’s on the television to politicians while letting - junior sit in front of it for 6 hours a day. They complain about women getting - abortions, because it “kills precious babies” while letting unwanted children - rot in orphanages and state care. They complain about people who say fuck in - public, while seeing nothing wrong with assualting anyone who dares tell their - child the simple word “No.” They constantly buy all the newest plastic - kindercrap, that junior is just going to play with for five minutes, than throw - it on the pile. This is the future? A world of spoiled brats who don’t know how - to control themselves above being able to hold in their shit until they can - find a toilet. A world of morons who blame everyone but themselves for their - own shortcomings. A world of closed-minded fuckers who refuse to budge from the - Staus Quo? - - For the love of God, I can’t take that! I can’t fucking deal with that shit. - It’s not that I want to kill kids. That would involve being near the little - buggers long enough to get off a shot. I support public education - assuming - it’s good education, and not a glorfied state babysitter who can’t give a child - an F without getting reamed by both the parents and the administration. I - support socialized health care for everyone - adult and child. That doesn’t - mean I think we should suck up and kiss ass to anyone with half a brain and - proof of a functioning reproductive system (i.e. a child). Parenting is the - parent’s responsibility - not mine, not the government’s. Don’t pass the buck - to me, for fuck’s sake. I’m not making you do my computer science homework, so - don’t make me suffer the atonal screamings of your twatrocket while I’m trying - to eat, and don’t make my put up with your spoiled sprogling demanding what he - can’t get. - - It is not my job, fuckers. Parent your own damn children! - - Devo - Jocko Homo/I Need A Chick - diff --git a/tpl/society/children/index.md b/tpl/society/children/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index 32b5330..0000000 --- a/tpl/society/children/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,37 +0,0 @@ -Children considered harmful -=========================== - -Children are nothing more than a toy some parents use to feed their ego and feel important. They are a nuisance and make life miserable for everyone else around. - -Some recommended articles for parents, prospective parents, or anyone that has to suffer the evils caused by little evil goblins. - -* [Fuck the children](fuck_the_children) by George Carlin -* [I Don’t Fucking Care About The Children](i_dont_care) by Devo - Jocko Homo - - -Who should be responsible for childrearing? -------------------------------------------- - -I don't care if the men or the woman do the childrearing, that is up to them to -sort out, both of them made a decision to have a child and they should have -know what the were getting into. - -In the end it is not about 'men' or 'women' should do this or that, it is about -parents should be fucking responsible for their children. Period. - -I am a man, and I wont take the bullshit from either men or women that whine -about how hard is to raise kids. I don't want kids, and if you got kids, it is -your problem and you should deal with it. - -I also should add that I consider 'having children'(the words say it all) one -of the most egoistical and egotistical things a human being can do. And to then -come and try to whine about how unfair it is for some parents is the acme of -hypocrisy. - - -Alternatives to children ------------------------- - -* Contraception -* Videogames - diff --git a/tpl/society/sweden.md b/tpl/society/sweden.md deleted file mode 100644 index 55cdf5e..0000000 --- a/tpl/society/sweden.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,48 +0,0 @@ -The Swedish dream -================= - -Sweden is probably (together with Japan) the most undemocratic developed -country in the world. For all practical purposes Sweden has been a single party -system for the last 60 years, the single party system is so strong, that the -few very short times other parties have been in power their policies even more -socialist and it never was long before the real Socialists were back in power. - -Cronyism and corruption are rampant, except that they have become so -institutionalized that they are accepted as normal. - -In the Socialist government power has passed from generation to generation, -they are so imbredded that the Prime Minister was married with the CEO of the -national liquor monopoly (which is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, -company in the country and which provides huge amounts of income to the -government). - -Politicians abused the rent control system so they can pay almost nothing for -huge apartments in the center of town while everyone else has to pay exorbitant -prices for a pathetic sociality flat so far from everything that it takes you -two hours to get to work. - -There are less than five construction companies that control all the housing in -the whole country thanks to exclusive contracts from the government. - -The list goes on and on, Sweden society is a lie, don't believe it. - - -Neutrality and pacifism ------------------------ - -Sweden likes to boast of being a neutral and peace loving nation that doesn't -even want to join NATO, while at the same time the Swedish military industry is -one of the main exporters, and sells to all kinds of corrupt and despotic -governments all over the world, specially the USA(note that USA-bashing is the -Swedish national sport). - -But you will never see any Swedish person mention or admit this, nobody talks -about it, it is like there is a social agreement to never bring this up, just -like the cooperation with the Nazis during WWII. - - -See also --------- -* [Who pays for Sweden's free lunch?](http://www.thelocal.se/7305/) -* [Mob rule in Sweden](http://www.thelocal.se/6311/20070205/) -* [Should the United States Be More Like Scandinavia?](http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=3688) diff --git a/tpl/software/firefox.md b/tpl/software/firefox.md deleted file mode 100644 index a778ad2..0000000 --- a/tpl/software/firefox.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,35 +0,0 @@ -Firefox -======= - -Performance and memory usage ----------------------------- - -I have to kill firefox after it has been running for a few days, because it using over 1Gb of ram and becomes so slow as to be unusable... even after I closed all windows and tabs and left only one window with a blank tab open! - -And this happens every single time I run firefox (which fortunately it is not too often because on Plan 9 we have saner web browsers), in the end it always glops every single bit of free memory and slows down to a crawl. - -Once I was so amused by this that I even had to take a screenshot, and after I killed it, when I tried to run it again I got this, lovely. - -And note that of course I don't have flash, java or any such nonsense installed, so either it is firefox or one of the few hundred linux libraries it uses(I don't have any windows or OS X boxes, so I have no clue if it leaks this much on other platforms). - -Every few days a new debian package shows up, and I naively await for the damned thing to download thinking that maybe they have fixed something... not such luck yet. - -Firefox is the perfect example of all that is wrong with software today: out of control complexity, layers upon layers of badly thought out gratuitous abstractions, rampant abuse of libraries, etc. And I say this as someone that respects and appreciates the mozilla developers, and I know they are good people (I was at the first two European Mozilla Developers Conferences). - -It is time for people to remember that simplicity is the most important value when building software, it is time to remember how to build small and simple programs that do one thing and do it well. But how can anyone do that with the ever growing tangle of standards? - -And always remember that: - -There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. -- C.A.R. Hoare, The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture - -If your software is so complex you can't figure out how to fix a memory leak in less than twenty minutes, then you are doing something wrong, if the leak stays around for months, then maybe it is best that you give and start from scratch. - - -Alternatives ------------- - -* abaco -* charon -* mothra -* dillo -* gopher diff --git a/tpl/software/index.md b/tpl/software/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index a2a588c..0000000 --- a/tpl/software/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ -All software sucks -================== - -"*And folks, let's be honest. Sturgeon was an optimist. Way more than 90% of code is crap.*" -- Al viro - -"*There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.*" -- C.A.R. Hoare, The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture - -"*One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.*" -- Ken Thompson - -"*..At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I -soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software can be -implemented, sold, and even used given enough determination. There is nothing a -mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million -dollars. But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way -and -that is reliability. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost -simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay.*" -- C.A.R. Hoare - -"*It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes.*" -- Keith Braithwaite diff --git a/tpl/software/object_oriented_programming.md b/tpl/software/object_oriented_programming.md deleted file mode 100644 index 6bd7f39..0000000 --- a/tpl/software/object_oriented_programming.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,41 +0,0 @@ -Object Oriented programming considered harmful -============================================== - -"*object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.*" -- Rob Pike - -OO is the "structured programming" snake oil of the 90' - -Useful at times, but hardly the "end all" programing paradigm some like to make -out of it. - -And, at least in it's most popular forms, it's often more harmful than helpful. - -Inhiretance is more trouble than it's worth. Under the doubtful deguise of the -holy "code reuse" an insane amount of gratuitous complexity is added to our -enviroment, which makes necesary industrial cuantities of syntactical sugar to -make the ensuing mess minimally manageable... - -People often forgets the 3 golden rules of programing as estated by Pike and -Kernighan: Simplicity, Clarity, Generality. - -Limbo has all the adventages of Java(cross platform, high level) without the -disadventages, and a much cleaner and simple "object model", not to mention the -most wonderful "threading" framework(besides the Alef/Plan9's-libthread which -is based in the same ideas). - -Too bad AT&T/Lucent fucked it up, but thanfully it's now truly Open/Free(unlike -Java), go download it if you haven't tried it yet: -http://cgi.www.vitanuova.com/cgi-bin/www.vitanuova.com/idown4e.pl - -An introdution by Brian W. Kernighan: -http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/descent.html - -And other by Dennis M. Ritchie: -http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/limbo.html - -I can deal with Python and Scheme if I have to though ;) - -And there is always portable asm... er I mean C. - -But Java(and other copies of the same stuff), *never again*, there are some -things in life that once are more than enough. diff --git a/tpl/software/xml.md b/tpl/software/xml.md deleted file mode 100644 index b528cd8..0000000 --- a/tpl/software/xml.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,35 +0,0 @@ -XML Sucks -========= - -"*The essence of XML is this: the problem it solves is not hard, and it does not solve the problem well."* -- Phil Wadler, POPL 2003 - - -For now see [xmlsucks](http://www.xmlsucks.com). - -Alternatives ------------- - -* Simple custom text formats -* sexprs -* csv -* json -* ndb-like - -Quotes ------- - -"*Most xml i've seen makes me think i'm dyslexic. it also looks constipated, -and two health problems in one standard is just too much.*" -- Charles Forsyth on 9fans - -Alexander Viro on linux-kernel mailing list: - - > > Or even XML. Ouch! No need to throw things at me! - > - > It seems they would be thrown! XML in kernel is too much. OpenOffice and - - They won't be thrown. They will be slowly driven under the nails, so that - victim could experience the joy equal to that of dealing with XML. - -"*Some part of me desperately wants to believe that XML-RPC is some kind of elaborate joke, like a cross between Discordianism and IP Over Avian Carriers.*" -- Ex-Cyber on #plan9 - -"*XML is simply lisp done wrong.*" -- Alan Cox