“I hold that simplicity is the most important attribute of design,” I say. To which Tufte would reply, “No, you don’t.”
“All you have to do is change the internal processing, add 200 more methods to the HTTP parser, serve Bittorrent over Ethernet, and have it save Korean orphans while eating a Mango in the back seat of an El Camino driven by twenty midget clowns.”
We won on my birthday :)
“Yet for some strange reason, the MScCS students seem to value fancy algorithms over working algorithms.”
Ouch! It would have been so much cooler if Java would have just dropped static typing completely.. :)
Everything I ever wanted to say about the current state of software development in ~50 slides. Thanks, Sam.
Sam Ruby trying to put a definition to the word “simple”. Seriously, it’s not as easy to define as you think.