Re:Software Is Drowning the World
by throw0101a on Sunday January 10, 2021 @10:23AM
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> Code, on the other hand, is a social constrution but entirely confined in an abstract and mathematical world.
Brian Cantrill had a good observation in a 2007 Google TechTalk introducing Dtrace:
> In software the blueprints are the machine. In software once you design the thing you've built it: the design is the machine. That's why the waterfall model is so fundamentally flawed. This idea that you could design the design before you design it, which is what the waterfall model is essentially saying, is flawed. Software is both, it's both information and machine. (@3m40s)
Brian Cantrill had a good observation in a 2007 Google TechTalk introducing Dtrace:
> In software the blueprints are the machine. In software once you design the thing you've built it: the design is the machine. That's why the waterfall model is so fundamentally flawed. This idea that you could design the design before you design it, which is what the waterfall model is essentially saying, is flawed. Software is both, it's both information and machine. (@3m40s)
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6chLw2aodYQ
I originally ran across it on Google Video:
* http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8002801113289007228