terrycrowley
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3 years ago
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on: Professional Programming: The First 10 Years
Great article. The point about fearlessness resonated. Ray Tomlinson (wrote the first inter-machine email, picked the @ symbol, helped design TCP) was one of the best and most fearless engineers I ever worked with.
terrycrowley
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3 years ago
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on: The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what customers want
This is a great example of the end-to-end argument. Putting smarts in the middle doesn't end up working because you lose the ability to optimize for the application semantics at the ends. It's an "argument" so not guaranteed to be true in all cases but applies here (according to the writer - I know nothing about the specifics of this technology/industry). But interesting to see the pattern recreated.
