The Night Watch... https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf is one of my all time favorite pieces of internet writing

Can you believe there are people out there who haven't read this yet? I can, because one of them was me. This was incredible.

> A systems programmer will know what to do when society breaks down, because the systems programmer already lives in a world without law.

	▲	nemosaltat 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Me also, I found Mickens through his Harvard Tenure post, but somehow just found Night's Watch today.

bloaf 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"I have no tools because I've destroyed my tools with my tools" is a phrase I think to myself at least weekly.