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Who is currently writing things that might end up having the impact of the MMM ? It's Friday, and I'm grumpy, so I could very well argue that the age of the "t
by phtrivier 4y ago
Who is currently writing things that might end up having the impact of the MMM ?
It's Friday, and I'm grumpy, so I could very well argue that the age of the "thinkers" is dead and gone for software, and that everything that comes from now is just rehashing old good ideas (at best) or propagating new bad ones.
Let's be charitable and assume there is still 1% a good stuff among the junk. Who's writing it ? Who's on the good side of the tar pit, and has the potential to lend a hand ?
- bluGill 4y agoPlato is still read, but there have been may philosophers since then that are also read. We are quickly passing the golden age when anyone can see the obvious problems and write on them. There will be many thinkers to come, but they are all building on the giants of the past and so will mostly not be commenting on the obvious.
- phtrivier 4y agoWell, it probably also applies to Plato, but what Fred Brooks wrote is still not considered _obvious_. Exhibit A : every single project manager who tried to address a tight schedule on a late project with a "well, we'll get more people in.". Today.
- pfarrell 4y agoNot writing, but I have found all of Brett Victor's speeches to be incredibly inspiring on how I think about what I want to work on and where we're going. Inventing on Principle by Brett Victor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII Growing a Language by Guy Steele: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw6TaiXzHAE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw6TaiXzHAE We Really Don't Know How to Compute! by Gerald Sussman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB5TrK7A4pI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB5TrK7A4pI