Comment by Avicebron
8 hours ago
The Night Watch... https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf is one of my all time favorite pieces of internet writing
8 hours ago
The Night Watch... https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf is one of my all time favorite pieces of internet writing
Can you believe there are people out there who haven't read this yet? I can, because one of them was me. This was incredible.
> A systems programmer will know what to do when society breaks down, because the systems programmer already lives in a world without law.
Me also, I found Mickens through his Harvard Tenure post, but somehow just found Night's Watch today.
"I have no tools because I've destroyed my tools with my tools" is a phrase I think to myself at least weekly.