Putting aside all the ad-hominem and everything-is-terrible, I think I learned a lot from following the references Tef makes in this talk. Some references (sor

Putting aside all the ad-hominem and everything-is-terrible, I think I learned a lot from following the references Tef makes in this talk. Some references (sorry for the formatting, if this becomes a thing I'll do the wiki and the logo): Slides: https://github.com/tef/emfcamp2012/raw/master/programming_is_terrible.pdf https://github.com/tef/emfcamp2012/raw/master/programming_is... Blub Paradox: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?BlubParadox http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?BlubParadox Perl and 9/11: http://www.paulgraham.com/hijack.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hijack.html 10x: http://hfs.sagepub.com/content/16/1/70.short http://hfs.sagepub.com/content/16/1/70.short http://www.construx.com/10x_Software_Development/Origins_of_10X_%E2%80%93_How_Valid_is_the_Underlying_Research_/ http://www.construx.com/10x_Software_Development/Origins_of_... http://www.construx.com/10x_Software_Development/Productivity_Variations_Among_Software_Developers_and_Teams__The_Origin_of_10x/ http://www.construx.com/10x_Software_Development/Productivit... Waterfall (same pdf, linking from 2 sources): http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2003/cmsc838p/Process/waterfall.pdf http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2003/cmsc838p/Process/wate... http://leadinganswers.typepad.com/leading_answers/files/original_waterfall_paper_winston_royce.pdf http://leadinganswers.typepad.com/leading_answers/files/orig... Conway's law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law Unrelated, Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy (I just like this law): http://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html http://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html X-Y Problem: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy... Atwood, Don't Learn to Code: http://blog.codinghorror.com/please-dont-learn-to-code/ http://blog.codinghorror.com/please-dont-learn-to-code/ Wason selection task: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wason_selection_task http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wason_selection_task LMGTFY: https://www.google.com/search?q=pieget+constructive+learning https://www.google.com/search?q=pieget+constructive+learning https://www.google.com/search?q=curry+howard+isomorphism https://www.google.com/search?q=curry+howard+isomorphism Amazon Links, no referral: http://www.amazon.com/Mindstorms-Children-Computers-Powerful-Ideas/dp/0465046746 http://www.amazon.com/Mindstorms-Children-Computers-Powerful... http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-3rd/dp/0321934113/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-3... http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B8USS14/ref=wl_mb_recs_2_title http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B8USS14/ref=wl_mb_recs_2_title http://www.amazon.com/Design-Essays-Computer-Scientist-ebook/dp/B003DKG5H6/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1426476643&sr=1-2 http://www.amazon.com/Design-Essays-Computer-Scientist-ebook...