Programs with lots of flags are just like programs with lots of GOTO statements — it's next to impossible to determine the state of a computation just from the lexical position of the program counter in the program text.

P.J. Plauge

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always fun reading Alan Kay stories about the past

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11796926

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Trying to re-read about module cohesion

https://stackoverflow.com/a/28786728

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What is high cohesion and how to use it / make it?

I'm learning computer programming and at several places I've stumbled upon the concept of cohesion and I understand that it is desirable for a software to have "high cohesion" but what does it mean...

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In an attempt to be more intentional with my internet usage, I am searching for #peertube recommendations. My main interests would be #Homelab #Academics #SRE #DevOps #SWeng etc.

I struggle to find which companies still use MDE/MDA

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