Taco Bell Programming 394
theodp writes "Think outside the box? Nah, think outside the bun. Ted Dziuba argues there's a programming lesson to be learned from observing how Taco Bell manages to pull down $1.9 billion by mixing-and-matching roughly eight ingredients: 'The more I write code and design systems, the more I understand that many times, you can achieve the desired functionality simply with clever reconfigurations of the basic Unix tool set. After all, functionality is an asset, but code is a liability. This is the opposite of a trend of nonsense called DevOps, where system administrators start writing unit tests and other things to help the developers warm up to them — Taco Bell Programming is about developers knowing enough about Ops (and Unix in general) so that they don't overthink things, and arrive at simple, scalable solutions.'"
8 keywords? (Score:2, Funny)
My order (Score:4, Funny)
Can I get a server logging system, hold the email notifications. Can I get extra rotating log files with that?
Re:Software is not food (Score:5, Funny)
"Compilers are like boyfriends, you miss a period and they go crazy on you."
I limit myself to 2 bits (Score:3, Funny)
I limit myself to two bits. A 0 and a 1.
Why would I need 8?
Once again, The Onion shows us the way (Score:4, Funny)
From over a decade ago: Taco Bell's Five Ingredients Combined In Totally New Way [theonion.com]
I think of that every time Taco Bell adds a "new" item to their menu.
Re:which language is best? (Score:5, Funny)
The DevOps thing is yet another crock of shit on par with 'managing programmers is like herding cats' and web2.0
I volunteer at a cat rescue. Herding cats is much easier than dealing with programmers.
Reference ? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Reference ? (Score:1, Funny)
So now Taco Bell is a reference for both cooking and programming ? I ate there exactly once and it tasted like sucking ass off a dead donkey. I pity the people who've been forced to eat there since a young age and now think this is 'food'. Yeah, flamebait, etc...
We should all be thankful we do not have your culinary experiences.
Jim Gaffigan's experience: (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Reference ? (Score:1, Funny)
I ate there exactly once and it tasted like sucking ass off a dead donkey.
Err...So there is a qualitative difference between sucking ass of a live and a dead donkey - and you know this difference?!
8? I thought it was 3 ... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Software is not food (Score:4, Funny)
Had a friend confuse bulbs of garlic with cloves of garlic.
My uncle made that mistake once. It resulted in everyone asking him for the recipe (true story).
Re:Let me tell you a story (Score:2, Funny)
Re:8? I thought it was 3 ... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Reference ? (Score:3, Funny)
That post is worthless without pics!
Re:Reference ? (Score:3, Funny)
That's why one of my friends calls the place Taco Bowel. It's much more descriptive than the commonly-heard Taco Hell.
My code is Taco Bell food at its finest (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Let me tell you a story (Score:3, Funny)
It's like you've purposefully made an entire post full of weasel words, and even sentences! "Metaphorically if you try to bend them at all they shatter rather spectacularly, they are brittle." Well done, sir.
Re:I limit myself to 2 bits (Score:3, Funny)
I limit myself to two ones, very carefully timed.
Re:8 keywords? (Score:4, Funny)
You had 1s?
Luxury! When I was a lad we had to program everything using only zeros!
Re:which language is best? (Score:3, Funny)
Meh, as long as you have a hunk of meat and a fishing pole, both tasks are the same.
Re:8 keywords? (Score:5, Funny)
Noli strepere.
Per tempus mei, "zero" non habemus. Numerorum Romanorum usi eramus.
Re:which language is best? (Score:5, Funny)
tail -n 100 /var/log/apache2/access_log | cut -f1 -d" " | sort | uniq
...
I'm honestly curious how long it will take you to do it in C, with/without the DNS lookup. Post source if you don't mind.
Not long at all...
/var/log/apache2/access_log | cut -f1 -d' ' | sort | uniq");
system("tail -n 100
Re:which language is best? (Score:3, Funny)
The problem being when the "piece of meat" in one case sues for sexual harassment. =p