declanhaigh

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Explaining the Unexplainable depesz.com

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Knight (Playing Card) en.wikipedia.org

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Worse is Better is Worse (2000) [pdf] dreamsongs.com

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Comment · 3 years ago

Ken Thompson once made a similar point about compilers and trust but in terms of security:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...

The Myth of Self-Describing XML (2003) [pdf] web.archive.org

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Nulls Nullified (2005) dbazine.com

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Atlas Autocode (1963) en.wikipedia.org

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Why shouldn't we allow nulls? (2011) dba.stackexchange.com

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Dijkstra's Letter to the Council (2001) nunoalexandre.com

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Edsger Dijkstra's Convocation Speech (1996) user.it.uu.se

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Manifesto on the Teaching of Mathematics (2015) intellectualmathematics.com

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Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) josephg.com

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Ontological Commitment en.wikipedia.org

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Beware the Integrated Tests Scam (2023) blog.thecodewhisperer.com

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German Tank Problem en.wikipedia.org

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