Maybe software is like a tree. The applications, websites, games that people use are the leaves. They’re the important part of the tree, because they’re useful. They solve real problems and improve lives, they make money, they entertain. The leaves are built upon the wood of the tree, branches and trunk: all the libraries and …
Notes from #qconnewyorkI went into programming because I loved the predictability of it. Unlike physics, programs were deterministic at every scale. That’s not true anymore – and it doesn’t mean programming isn’t fun. This came out in some themes of QCon New York 2014. In the evening keynote, Peter Wang told us we’ve been sitting …
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