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Programming-related rants, some hilarious, some depressing.


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"Programming Sucks" by Peter Welch

Why you shouldn't parse [X]HTML with regex, by bobince

About the ICCCM, by Sean Neakums

"How Software Companies Die", by Orson Scott Card

About temporal measurement, by Robert Grudin

"How To Write Unmaintainable Code", by Roedy Green

"Programming is terrible", a talk by tef

"Devil's Dictionary of Programming", by the same

From the Scsh Reference Manual, by Olin Shivers

"Ed is the standard text editor", the last word on editor wars, by Patrick J. LoPresti

"I hate almost all software", by Ryan Dahl

"Oh yippee, a new build system", by Richard Purdie

"Everything is Broken", By Quinn Norton

"Dizzying but invisible depth", By Jean Baptiste Queru

"the three hot trends in Silicon Valley horseshit", By Fredrik DeBoer

About corporate language, by Lucy Kellaway

Rant from "Our Comrade The Electron", by Maciej Cegłowski

System software research is irrelevant, by Rob Pike

YOU WILL NOT UNDERSTAND THIS, by Stanley Lieber

"Verification Techniques, Wherein existing methods for building secure systems are examined and found wanting." By Peter Gutmann (full text: https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/2292/2310/02whole.pdf?sequence=2)

Software Disenchantment, by Nikita Prokopov

Interruptions

Against software development, by Michael Arntzenius

The broken promise of re-use, by Uwe Friedrichsen

Everything's broken and nobody's upset, by Scott Hanselman

Modern software development is a cancer, by Igor Ljubuncic

Quantum computing as a field is obvious bullshit, by Scott Locklin

Javascript is cancer, by Ted Dziuba

I'm going to scale my foot up your ass, by the same

Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Programmer Who Gives a Shit, by Steve Yegge

"Both C locales and wchar_t are shitfucked retarded legacy braindeath", by "wm4"

Code comment regarding the Adobe PSD file format

Javascript required, by "tommorris"

"GitHub, f*ck your name change", by "MooseyAnon"

Why we will win the war for general-purpose computing, by Andy Farrell

Never update anything

Code bloat has become astronomical, by cliffski

The Internet is already over, by Sam Kriss

I Will Fucking Haymaker You If You Mention Agile Again, by "Ludicity"

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