W1SEG

Amateur Radio Station

There is no doubt that the grail of efficiency leads to abuse. Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%. A good programmer will not be lulled into complacency by such reasoning, he will be wise to look carefully at the critical code; but only after that code has been identified.

—Donald Knuth

quote dittybopper

You’ll have to learn the ways of the Morse, if you’re to come with me to Dayton.

The Morse is what gives a Ham his power. It’s an energy field created by turning a carrier on and off. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.

I have something here for you. Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your uncle wouldn’t allow it. He feared you might follow old dittybopper on some damn fool DXpedition like your father did. Your father’s Morse key. This is the tool of a ham radio operator. Not as clumsy or random as a microphone; an elegant device for a more civilized age.

For over a thousand generations, CW ops were the guardians of peace and justice in the Aether. Before the dark times… before No Code…

May the Morse be with you.

—u/dittybopper_05H

W1SEG Amateur Radio Station

quote dittybopper

You’ll have to learn the ways of the Morse, if you’re to come with me to Dayton.

The Morse is what gives a Ham his power. It’s an energy field created by turning a carrier on and off. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.

I have something here for you. Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your uncle wouldn’t allow it. He feared you might follow old dittybopper on some damn fool DXpedition like your father did. Your father’s Morse key. This is the tool of a ham radio operator. Not as clumsy or random as a microphone; an elegant device for a more civilized age.

For over a thousand generations, CW ops were the guardians of peace and justice in the Aether. Before the dark times… before No Code…

May the Morse be with you.

—u/dittybopper_05H

There is no doubt that the grail of efficiency leads to abuse. Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%. A good programmer will not be lulled into complacency by such reasoning, he will be wise to look carefully at the critical code; but only after that code has been identified.

—Donald Knuth