Reading rollup, 2014-08-26
I signed up for Pinboard a little over a month ago, finally cleared my “must read this” email labels to it, and haven’t looked back. I find myself spending a lot of time in it now, reading documents and taking notes. Recommended.
Following jmason’s example, I thought I’d start rolling some of the links I’m reading into blog posts, starting with older stuff.
My pins are private, so I haven’t bothered including tags, and I’m doing this on a pull basis rather than daily. :o)
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Numbers Every Programmer Should Know By Year
Colin Scott's update to Jeff Dean and Peter Norvig's numbers, with an interactive sliding widget to get data for different years. Nice visual display of how things have changed (and are expected to). Also useful for back of the envelope estimation.
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Out of the Tarpit - Mosely and Marks
Fascinating paper that locates the source of the "software crisis" in complexity. Surveys the sources of that complexity, approaches to dealing with it, and a possible way forward (functional reactive programming).
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On Being A Senior Engineer - Allspaw
John Allspaw's notes on what differentiates mature or senior engineers from junior. Good advice, lots of interesting links out.