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Taco Bell Programming
theodp writes "Think outside the box? Nah, think outside the bun. Ted Dziuba argues there's a programming lesson to be learned from observing how Taco Bell manages to pull down $1.9 billion by mixing-and-matching roughly eight ingredients: 'The more I write code and design systems, the more I understand that many times, you can achieve the desired functionality simply with clever reconfigurations of the basic Unix tool set. After all, functionality is an asset, but code is a liability. This is the opposite of a trend of nonsense called DevOps, where system administrators start writing unit tests and other things to help the developers warm up to them — Taco Bell Programming is about developers knowing enough about Ops (and Unix in general) so that they don't overthink things, and arrive at simple, scalable solutions.'"
So if I limit myself to 8 keywords my code has less defects and is more maintainable?
Can I get a server logging system, hold the email notifications. Can I get extra rotating log files with that?
"Compilers are like boyfriends, you miss a period and they go crazy on you."
I limit myself to two bits. A 0 and a 1.
Why would I need 8?
From over a decade ago: Taco Bell's Five Ingredients Combined In Totally New Way
I think of that every time Taco Bell adds a "new" item to their menu.
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The DevOps thing is yet another crock of shit on par with 'managing programmers is like herding cats' and web2.0
I volunteer at a cat rescue. Herding cats is much easier than dealing with programmers.
So now Taco Bell is a reference for both cooking and programming ? I ate there exactly once and it tasted like sucking ass off a dead donkey. I pity the people who've been forced to eat there since a young age and now think this is 'food'. Yeah, flamebait, etc...
Non-Linux Penguins ?
Mexican food's great, but it's essentially all the same ingredients, so there's a way you'd have to deal with all these stupid questions. "What is nachos?" "...Nachos? It's tortilla with cheese, meat, and vegetables." "Oh, well then what is a burrito?" "Tortilla with cheese, meat, and vegetables." "Well then what is a tostada?" "Tortilla with cheese, meat, and vegetables." "Well then what i-" "Look, it's all the same shit! Why don't you say a spanish word and I'll bring you something." - Jim Gaffigan
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
Had a friend confuse bulbs of garlic with cloves of garlic.
My uncle made that mistake once. It resulted in everyone asking him for the recipe (true story).
My webcomic
You had it coming, smart ass.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
No, it's up, down, sideways. sex-appeal and peppermint.
Quidnam Latine loqui modo coepi?
It leaves results in your shorts.
It's like you've purposefully made an entire post full of weasel words, and even sentences! "Metaphorically if you try to bend them at all they shatter rather spectacularly, they are brittle." Well done, sir.
<xml><I><am><so><damn>Web 2.0</damn></so></am></I></xml>
Meh, as long as you have a hunk of meat and a fishing pole, both tasks are the same.
tail -n 100 /var/log/apache2/access_log | cut -f1 -d" " | sort | uniq
...
I'm honestly curious how long it will take you to do it in C, with/without the DNS lookup. Post source if you don't mind.
Not long at all...
/var/log/apache2/access_log | cut -f1 -d' ' | sort | uniq");
system("tail -n 100
The problem being when the "piece of meat" in one case sues for sexual harassment. =p