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Didier Verna
Personal blog · didierverna.com/blogprogrammingculture
Didier Verna's personal blog at didierverna.com covers programming and culture. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Didier Verna's essay "Lisp, Jazz, Aikido" when discussing elitism and simplicity. One commenter cites it as a statement of a philosophy of maximal output from minimal input and generative rules.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Actualité musicale de Didier Verna
What Hacker News says?
Simplicity is for elitists. Maybe some of you remember Didier Verna's Lisp, Jazz, Aikido: https://www.didierverna.com/blog/index.php?post/2007/04/03/L... It's not hard to sympathize with Verna's feelings. These are all based on a similar set of philosophical guideposts: maximal output for minimal input, maximal possibilities of self-expression from a minimal set of generative rules, and understanding the deep "essen…
Comment linking /blog/index.php?post/2007/04/03/Lisp-Jazz-Aikido
on “Elitism as the Mid-Career Growth Engine”Submitted Monday Troll: Lisp and the syntax extension Myth as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Language Wars as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lisp, Jazz, Aïkido as a story · 1 points
HN discussion