I was on wikipedia and learned that Tony Hoare regretted inventing the null reference. It says he believed that it caused billions of dollars of damage, but why did he apologize? I really only know C++ and from my experience nullpntr dosen't seem like a terrible idea.
We interviewed Sir Tony Hoare about the history of concurrency models, his work with concurrency including Quicksort and where it will be heading in the future.
https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/let-s-talkconcurrency-with-sir-tony-hoare.html
Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming
#Rule 1.
*You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time.
Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try to second guess and
put in a speed hack until you've proven that's where the bottleneck is.*
#Rule 2.
*Measure. Don't tune for speed until you've measured, and even
then don't unless one part of the code overwhelms the rest.*
#Rule 3.
*Fancy algorithms are slow when n is small, and n is
usually small. Fancy algorithms have big constants. Until you know
that n is frequently going to be big, don't get fancy. (Even if n
does get big, use Rule 2 first.)*
#Rule 4.
*Fancy algorithms are buggier than simple ones, and
they're much harder to implement. Use simple algorithms as
well as simple data structures.*
#Rule 5.
*Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data
structures and organized things well, the algorithms will
almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not
algorithms, are central to programming.*
*Pike's rules 1 and 2 restate Tony Hoare's famous maxim
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil." Ken
Thompson rephrased Pike's rules 3 and 4 as "When in doubt,
use brute force.". Rules 3 and 4 are instances of the
design philosophy KISS. Rule 5 was previously stated by
Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month. Rule 5 is often
shortened to "write stupid code that uses smart objects".*
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
