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How many different things can a human being think about at once? Maybe 5? 10? probably not an order of magnitude more than that. Maybe part of the problem is th
by whyenot 16y ago
How many different things can a human being think about at once? Maybe 5? 10? probably not an order of magnitude more than that. Maybe part of the problem is that we are running into some limitations of the human brain. Education may help, but maybe we should also take care that we aren't trying to jam round pegs into square holes.
- InclinedPlane 16y agoSoftware development passed outside the realm where a single human brain could fully comprehend the entirety of the project at every level of detail about 5 decades ago. The question is not whether abstractions are required to allow human brains to deal with threading, that's a given, the question is whether or not we have the right abstractions.