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The author Martin Thompson is one of those rare breed of developers who understands the sheer inner workings and the effects of his programs from the source to

• eps 10y ago
  This breed so not exactly rare as it includes every system programmer at its bare minimum.
  • voltagex_ 10y ago
    I'm sure this is a logical fallacy but if that were true, wouldn't the quality of software on consumer routers be much better?
    • newjersey 10y ago
      I imagine a systems programmer would not consider user-facing applications as their program especially if they had no hand in writing these user-facing applications. In my imagination, a systems programmer abstracts out application programming and just blocks it out. Personally, I think in abstractions as well. I don't spend a lot of time thinking about fetch, execute, decode, ... when I write my line of business applications. I probably should but as I pound out lines after lines of garbage, I could be a lot more conscientious but I tell myself my code runs on top of other people's code (and really I am not that great of a programmer anyway so I should focus on my part of the code rather than the platform which I can't change anyways). https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/sum2003/cmsc311/Notes/CompOrg/fetchDecode.html https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/sum2003/cmsc311/Notes/CompOrg/f...