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diff --git a/content/philosophy.md b/content/philosophy.md deleted file mode 100644 index 9820c1f..0000000 --- a/content/philosophy.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,57 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: "Philosophy" -description: "" -date: 2019-02-28T09:52:26+01:00 -publishDate: 2019-02-28T09:52:26+01:00 -author: "Dimitri Staessens" -images: [] -draft: false -tags: [] ---- - -<center></center> - -During his entire scientific career, Edsger Dijkstra broke a lance for -the creed -- which he attributes to Tony Hoare -- that [*simplicity is -prerequisite for -reliability*](http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD619.html). He -spent a lot of time and effort convincing his contemporaries in the -computing science community that *elegance is not a dispensable -luxury, but a matter of life and death*. Dijkstra was painfully aware -that [*simplicity is very hard to -achieve*](https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD896.html) -and grossly underrated, even to the point that the academic and -economic reward systems work against any attempt do so: "*complexity -sells better*". With some computer engineers living by the motto *move -fast and break things*, Dijkstra would most definitely [not have been -happy](http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD12xx/EWD1213.html) -with much of the current state of affairs of computing science. While -he always will be considered one of the greatest computer scientists -that ever lived, his passionate message to diligently strive for -elegance seems to be all but erased from the collective consciousness -of engineers and computer scientists. Are we further away today from -computing's central challenge than we were [almost 20 years ago] -(https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD13xx/EWD1304.html)? - -<center> {{<figure -class="fl" -src="https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/move_fast_and_break_things.png" -width="200">}} -</center> - -The current TCP/IP network stack has a long development history, and -its technical debt is leading to inefficiencies that allow hackers to -infiltrate networks with childish ease. In order to get to a -trustworthy and secure communications infrastructure, the structure of -the Internet needs to be drastically revised. The current protocols -have so much deprecated, unused and unnecessary bits and fields, that -trying to guard against every possible exploit is inefficient and -virtually impossible. - -Ouroboros is a new decentralized packet transport network for POSIX -operating systems that aims to accepts Edward Snowdens -[challenge](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/05/edward-snowdens-other-motive-for-leaking/370068/): -to build a network infrastructure that will "*enforce a principle -whereby the only way the powerful may enjoy privacy is when it is the -same kind shared by the ordinary: one enforced by the laws of nature, -rather than the policies of man*." |