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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

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Joined April 2012
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Matt Kline
6 days
You hate systemd because "it violates the Unix philosophy". I hate systemd because it fucked up log rotation on production boxes by overwriting my config with random undocumented constants picked by Lennart himself. We are not the same.
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based hippo.
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Matt Kline
3 months
Spurious wakeups aren't real and can't hurt you.
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6 months
RT @cmuratori: When I say it's easier to understand assembly language than web "tech", I'm not kidding. Assembly is by its nature simple an….
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1 year
RT @florida_sophia: As Carlson gets celebrity treatment in Moscow, Russia just extended the detention of American journalist Alsu Kurmashev….
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1 year
Why is the preeminent Rust HTTP library sitting on a bunch of unsafe rewrites of standard library tools? Isn't this the language where we get fastness *and* correctness out of the box?.
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Matt Kline
2 years
RT @ProgrammerDude: is a fun read.
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Matt Kline
2 years
Or, "I stumbled into a @paulmckrcu talk 8 years ago and life was never the same.".
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Matt Kline
2 years
We use GC so our code can go fast.
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Matt Kline
2 years
There, I said it.
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Matt Kline
3 years
Let's talk about error handling.
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Matt Kline
3 years
Want to learn how to create beautiful writing in LaTeX without wading through a bunch of archaic crap? Check out my (very) short book, Modern LaTeX!. Free at or dead tree editions at.
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5 years
#MakeSpaceForWomen featuring the woman who coined the term software engineering and landed astronauts on the moon with a real-time operating system. Fifty years ago. In assembly.
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Matt Kline
6 years
When you're sitting in a @CppCon talk and suddenly @mcypark is discussing your blog.
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Matt Kline
7 years
Damn it. @Raycevick released his Orange Box video and now I'm all nostalgic and shit.
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7 years
My Latest Video "The Orange Box. 10 Years Later" is Now Available!
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Matt Kline
8 years
@paulmckrcu @a_williams @fpikus Also thanks to @preshing and @herbsutter for getting me started on all this insanity.
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8 years
A "brief" primer on lockless concurrency: Many thanks to @paulmckrcu, @a_williams, and @fpikus for feedback!.
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Matt Kline
8 years
Computer typography has no reason to be this bad when TeX has existed for almost 40 years.
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Matt Kline
8 years
Overheard at at #CppCon concurrency talk: "Weird, these slides are out of order.".
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Matt Kline
8 years
Come on, DNS records. Propagate faster.
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