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		flogic on Aug 16, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rob Pike: The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got. I don' think the advice is to do a proof, but rather to design and think about it in such a way that you could given enough time.

dllthomas on Aug 16, 2012 [–]

One of my CS theory profs had the policy, "A proof is anything that convinces me you could write a proof."

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