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1972 Unix V2 "Beta" Resurrected

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414 points henry_flower | 2 comments | 19 Feb 25 21:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.451s | source
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m4r1k ◴[20 Feb 25 07:27 UTC] No.43112034[source]▶
I once saw a talk from Brian Kernighan who made a joke about how in three weeks Ken Thompson wrote a text editor, the B compiler, and the skeleton for managing input/output files, which turned out to be UNIX. The joke was that nowadays we're a bit less efficient :-D
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1. somat ◴[20 Feb 25 18:57 UTC] No.43118624[source]▶
It is also the case that the first 80% of a projects functionality goes really quickly. Especially when you are interested and highly motivated about the project. That remaining 20% though. That is a long tail, it tends to be a huge slog that kills your motivation.
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2. jefurii ◴[21 Feb 25 17:12 UTC] No.43130101[source]▶
The first 80% of a project takes 80% of the time. The last 20% of the project takes the other 80% of the time.