Life Is Great in the Age of No Secrets
It’s getting easier and easier to put data out there, to help people better understand the world. And that gives me hope for the future.
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Why Great Programmers Pull Back the Curtain While Programming
I certainly don’t know everything. Yet as often as possible, I try to discover the ghost in the machine, so to speak, and how everything functions.
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From URL to Interactive
When we think about it, our whole industry depends on our faith in a handful of “black boxes” few of us fully understand: browsers. We hand over our HTML, CSS, JavaScript, cross our fingers, and hope they render the experience we have in our heads. But knowing how they work can really get you out of a jam when things go wrong. That’s why we’ve assembled a handful of incredibly knowledgeable authors to take us under the hood in this four-part series. Join us on this trip across the web, into the often foggy valley between code and experience.
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Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery
“Communications of the ACM is the leading print and online publication for the computing and information technology fields. Read by computing’s leading professionals worldwide, Communications is recognized as the most trusted and knowledgeable source of industry information for today’s computing professional.”
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Hey Google, What’s a Moonshot?: How Silicon Valley Mocks Apollo
Communications of the ACM, January 2019
By Thomas Haigh
“Letting Silicon Valley steal the term “moonshot” for projects with quite different management styles, success criteria, scales, and styles of innovation hurts our collective ability to understand just what NASA achieved 50 years ago and why nothing remotely comparable is actually under way today at Google, or anywhere else.”
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What Is Code?
“Software has been around since the 1940s. Which means that people have been faking their way through meetings about software, and the code that builds it, for generations. Now that software lives in our pockets, runs our cars and homes, and dominates our waking lives, ignorance is no longer acceptable. The world belongs to people who code. Those who don’t understand will be left behind.”
“This issue comprises a single story devoted to demystifying code and the culture of the people who make it. There’s some technical language along with a few pretty basic mathematical concepts. There are also lots of solid jokes and lasting insights. It may take a few hours to read, but that’s a small price to pay for adding decades to your career.”
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