Old Is the New New
summary
Most so‑called new ideas are just old ones repackaged: Lisp ships garbage collection by 1960, Algol 68 has closures and expression‑oriented syntax, Ward Cunningham’s original wiki is 150 lines of Perl, the Unix kernel in Lions’ notes is 9,500 lines, and the coordination idea behind pipes appears as UNIX pipes 1964. The manifesto “worse is better” (1990) argues for small, fast, replaceable implementations; unit‑testing and interlaced testing date to 1968; command‑line tools can be 200× faster than big Hadoop clusters.
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chapters (41)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:20Why dont we explore
- 2:10Shakespeare
- 3:30Lisp
- 5:50Singletons
- 7:50Patents
- 8:10Worse is Better
- 9:45Less is Better
- 10:55Simplicity
- 11:30completeness
- 13:20consistency
- 13:50discovery
- 15:30classic statements
- 16:25Douglas Engelbart
- 17:05Alan Kay
- 18:55Adam Drake
- 20:10The Speed of Light
- 21:05The bandwidth problem
- 21:55Linux
- 24:35UNIX
- 25:15Legacy Systems
- 26:35Ancient Greece
- 27:20UNIX Philosophy
- 27:35Micro Services
- 28:45Solar Cycle
- 29:55ServiceOriented Architecture
- 31:00Middleware
- 32:55Given When
- 33:55Technical Debt
- 35:25Microservices
- 36:05Coding
- 36:50Journal
- 37:45Brian Randall
- 38:25Parnassus 1972
- 40:30Cohesion
- 41:39Messaging Model
- 44:15Small Talk
- 45:08Data Abstraction
- 46:03The Best Paradigm
- 46:49Build Walls
- 49:05Copy and Paste
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