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Bill Gates: “Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight“.
by access_denied 17y ago
Bill Gates:
“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight“.
- silentbicycle 17y agoWell, this is an article about programming, not a program, and it's pretty insubstantial. All it really does is mention some buzzwords and and note that they're the foundation of the "pyramid of code quality". Nothing personal against the author, but it's pretty flat for something that's stayed on the front page through evening. I wonder why it's getting voted up. This article on ssh (http://sigusr2.net/2009/May/07/hacker-utility-belt-ssh.html http://sigusr2.net/2009/May/07/hacker-utility-belt-ssh.html) barely scratches the surface, too. At the very least, I'd mention ssh-agent (a good intro: http://mah.everybody.org/docs/ssh http://mah.everybody.org/docs/ssh) and visual fingerprints for host keys (http://gwolf.org/node/1864 http://gwolf.org/node/1864). But, I really should be constructive and write something myself, rather than just griping here. It's much easier to complain about other peoples' writing than to write. One of these days...