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People of ACM – Russ Cox (acm.org)
SA9G 3 minutes ago [-]
I love the "Tornado" term and "software debt"... worked with a few over the years, fixed the bug but broke the paradigm. Well articulated wisdom.
shaftoe444 1 days ago [-]
> Software engineering is what happens to programming when you add time and other people.
Cthulhu_ 2 hours ago [-]
The book Software Engineering at Google goes into this (all factors of programming at scale / over time), worth a read.
tmoertel 16 minutes ago [-]
It's available online for free: https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book

And, yep, it's worth a read.

ignoramous 46 minutes ago [-]
Then a new term is warranted for what happens to programming when we add prompts & agents.
arccy 31 minutes ago [-]
don't we already have the words slop and vibecode
pstuart 3 hours ago [-]
An amazing distillation of the craft.
dchest 3 hours ago [-]
I recently learned that Russ also wrote software for The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (https://oeis.org) and is the president of the OEIS Foundation.
pbohun 1 hours ago [-]
Russ also has a great blog, with the most recent entry on fast floating-point printing and parsing. I believe these performance improvements have landed in the latest version of Go. https://research.swtch.com/fp
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