NEWS FLASH MustRead: Everything Is Broken

[wardmundy]

If you read nothing else this week, read this article.

Scary indeed...

https://medium.com/message/81e5f33a24e1

 

[mbellot]

Thanks Ward, that was an excellent read.

It sadly confirms what I've intuitively known for a couple decades. And (from personal involvement/experience) the hardware running the software isn't designed any better.

 

[visionlogic]

Place your bet and roll the dice.

 

[magna.vis]

I love Quinn Norton so much! Great artical. Hysterical images as well- though, I think most of us have suspected the Ubuntu one for some time.

 

[mbellot]

When I am up late drinking thinking, I wonder how much code out there is done by well meaning but clueless amateurs. I'm sure many would place me in that category, and yet nothing stops me from creating or contributing code to OSS projects. It is just so easy to search github for a library or class, check that the license permits and steal incorporate it into whatever you are doing.

garbage in is gospel out
turtles all the way down
pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
Respect mah authoritah!

You forgot the most important cliche'

House of cards

 

[billsimon]

People used to expect and respect computer bugs. Yes, even big ones.

Now, the general public, who do not understand that software is a complex set of instructions provided by humans to tell computers what to do, expect perfection and cry out when something bad happens.

Expectations need to be kept in check.

PS: C is not a bad language. Guns don't kill people, people kill people. C doesn't cause bugs, programmers cause bugs.

 

[mbellot]

C doesn't cause bugs, programmers cause bugs.

I'm not sure I buy this one...

Programmers create bugs, but C is one heck of an enabler.

= vs. == is one of my most favorite. I worked with a programmer that had trained himself to write equality checks "backwards" (constant == variable) so the compiler would yell at him if he forgot and only used one equal sign.

 

[wardmundy]

And speaking of enablers...

 

[mbellot]

Keeping with the new theme...