Taking your code for a walk | The Endeavour
vendredi 4 octobre 2013 à 18:09 Neros, le 04/10/2013 à 18:09
When I was in college, a friend of mine told me he liked to take his code out for a walk every now and then. By that he meant recompiling and running all of his programs, say once a week. I asked him why he would want to do that. If a program compiled and ran the last time you touched it, why shouldn’t it compile and run now? He simply said I might be surprised
The only way to archive digital information is to keep it moving. I call this movage instead of storage. Proper movage means transferring the material to current platforms on a regular basis … anything you want moved to the future has to be given attention to keep it moving forward.
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When I was in college, a friend of mine told me he liked to take his code out for a walk every now and then. By that he meant recompiling and running all of his programs, say once a week. I asked him why he would want to do that. If a program compiled and ran the last time you touched it, why shouldn’t it compile and run now? He simply said I might be surprised
The only way to archive digital information is to keep it moving. I call this movage instead of storage. Proper movage means transferring the material to current platforms on a regular basis … anything you want moved to the future has to be given attention to keep it moving forward.
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