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Should we be engineering not programming? This is an interesting look at knowing stuff, the Dunning-Kruger effect, how we get to be good at something (and whether or not we can judge ourselves), etc.
From the youtube summary:
"During this talk, I will demonstrate that humans cannot Program. Ther...
Abstract:
Most build systems start small and simple, but over time grow into hairy monsters that few dare to touch. As we demonstrate in this paper, there are a few issues that cause build systems major scalability challenges, and many pervasively used build systems (e.g. Make) do not scale well....
Exploration of the complete design space for
data-movement primitives supports the following conclu-
sions: (1) traditional assignment is fundamentally flawed,
and (2) any other data-movement primitive would be better.
Pike, S., Heym, W.D., Adcock, B., Bronish, D., Kirschenbaum, J., and Weide,...