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    mattyw avatar mattyw 3 months ago | link | on: The Lost Elegance of Computation

    This is a fascinating discussion (recorded back in May) with Conal Elliott. Of particular interest is his view (starting at around 11 minutes) on the two impulses of programming. The first being that it’s fun to get machines to do our bidding (but he argues this isn’t a very deep experience). The 2nd impulse is that we want to understand the universe, and programs should be a search for truth (I’m paraphrasing badly).

    I’d be interested to hear what everyone thinks.

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      inactive-user avatar inactive-user 3 years ago | link | on: What's the best approach to learn Linux and its internals?

      Start with http://www.man7.org/tlpi/index.html

      Regarding the performance analysis you mentioned in a comment, read http://www.brendangregg.com/bpf-performance-tools-book.html

      There is also a new version of Gregg’s Systems Performance book coming out soon.

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        mattyw avatar mattyw 3 years ago | link

        I’m looking forward to reading the BPF book, but I’ve not seen any announcements about the new edition of Systems Performance other than the statement at the end of http://www.brendangregg.com/sysperfbook.html. Do you have any more information?

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          inactive-user avatar inactive-user 3 years ago | link

          He mentioned at the end of his LISA 2019 presentation to keep an eye out, but I don’t have any information beyond that.