Bearded Gurus
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Claims that lessons from 1970s computer science still solve modern problems and that rediscovering old research yields actionable fixes: examples include Roy Fielding's REST thesis explaining HTTP verbs, Lamport's consensus algorithm for distributed systems, and management rules from Fred Brooks The Mythical Man-Month. Recommends mining ACM and SIGGRAPH papers, reading theses, collecting references, then building gems and blog posts to prove ideas, noting surprises like CAP and REST being decades old and fights that push concepts from niche to mainstream.
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