A software system is transparent when you can look at it and immediately see what is going on. It is simple when what is going on is uncomplicated enough for a human brain to reason about all the potential cases without strain

With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow.

That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.

Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry

Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.

Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages surveyed here and you will find a core implemented in pure, portable C

In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower than the general population? That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.