I’ve watched this talk by Erik Meijer
My notes
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The hacker way
- code always wins vs manager always wins
- source: http://www.wired.com/2012/02/zuck-letter/
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we’re doing maths => we’re building a proof
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reinforcement learning
- agent is the company
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related to “build, measure, learn” by Eric Ries (the lean startup)
Feedback systems
- Open (no) feedback system, such as timed sprinklers
- Closed feedback system
- Output only system
Why everything is software
- Examples of everything is software
- Software is eating the world
- Even hardware is modeled as software
Modeling as a Finite State Machine (FSM)
- There’s memory in the feedback loop. See the finite state machine
- A lesson from “World War Z”: “When nine people agree on something, it’s the tenth man’s responsibility to disagree no matter how improbable the idea”. “You don’t believe your own [ideas]”. There’s an article here and here, but they don’t cite any official source related to this. The second one cites World War Z again, so it might be confirmation bias.
- Test in production (e.g., chaos monkey from Netflix) rather than doing TDD
- No evidence of TDD as effective, he sees it as waste
- Move fast and break things
About layered organizations
- Layered architecture. Examples: OSI, Catholic Church, Army
- Analogy: Software development as a professional team structure (also cited from Netflix)
- Book: Creativity from Constraints: the psychology of breakthrough. Focus, constraint, creativity
- Presentation: Developing Expertise: Herding Racehorses, Racing Sheep
- Analogy: Developers are like junkies, we want to be high all the time
- Answering a new proposal: instead of “no, but” (black hat), “yes and” (blue hat). Reference to Bossypants by Tina Fey
- Your knives, your tools. “How can we make millions if we don’t value our tools?”
Conclusion
About software:
software will take over the world, and developers are the ones who make it happen.
About methodologies:
“Programming, motherfucker. Do you speak it?” (Source)