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  1. @Luisa_Donato

    Related, this under-appreciated Gem of a book: The Unix Philosophy, by Mike Gancarz, Digital Press 1995. Deep insights into OS design and general UI design from a user/programmer perspective. Deceptive in its easy conversational style, very substantial in its actual insights.

    #UnixPhilosophy #MikeGancarz

  2. @Luisa_Donato I'm fairly certain that no one I know IRL is aware of the name "Claude Shannon" or the scope of the work he accomplished, and it makes me very happy to see him celebrated here. #claudeshannon was from an era of polymaths, when you weren't just a software or hardware engineer, you were usually a mathematician or physicist who got into engineering as a practical application of your field.

    Thanks for sharing! Makes me feel like Mastodon is full of My People.

  3. In the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
    ~ Tolkien

  4. Perfect friday night 🌌💻 :iterm2_logo:
    #thm

  5. Remembering Claude Shannon, born on this day, with his paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication".

    people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/h

    #ClaudeShannon

  6. I was looking for some stuff about chess and I came across this. Claude Shannon is everywhere. Such a genius.

    #ClaudeShannon

  7. I read this article some time ago and I think it's great. It's absolutely worth reading! It's titled "How Claude Shannon invented the future" and I think it's absolutely true! Claude Shannon is probably one of the most underrated geniuses ever. quantamagazine.org/how-claude-

    #claudeshannon @QuantaMagazine

  8. Claude Shannon, such a genius.

    (Source: from the book Unix a history and a memoir, by Brian Kernighan)

    #claudeshannon #unixahistoryandamemoir
    #briankernighan

  9. Version 7 Unix for PDP-11, including Dennis Ritchie’s directory /usr/dmr

    (Remembering Dennis Ritchie, born on this day, in 1941).
    #dennisritchie

  10. I’m reading “How Cybersecurity really works”by @grubbslinger @nostarch . So far so good, really interesting! Very well written, great explanations.

    #howcybersecurityreallyworks
    #nostarch

  11. The difference between Windows and Linux.

    For those who would like to know about the source: The Linux Command Line by William Shotts, No Starch Press, so far the best Linux book I have ever read.

    #linux #thelinuxcommandline #nostarch @nostarch
    @william_shotts

  12. Curious facts about Linux 🐧
    #linux

    For those who would like to know about the source: I found this on The Linux Command Line by William Shotts, No Starch Press. #thelinuxcommandline #nostarch @nostarch

  13. The humble programmer": this is one of my favorite lecture by one of my favorite computer scientists, Edsger W. Dijkstra (I'm infinitely grateful to the person who let me discover it some time ago!).

    "The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague."
    cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcripti

    #thehumbleprogrammer #edsgerdijkstra #dijkstra

  14. HTTP response status codes indicate whether a specific HTTP request has been successfully completed.
    Responses are grouped in 5 classes 👇:
    1xx informational
    2xx success
    3xx redirection
    4xx client error
    5xx server error

    #http #programming #coding #httpstatuscodes
    (Pic found on web)