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This is a very hot take and also not a new one but here we go: the goal of a properly functioning software engineer is to obviate themselves, not by solving the customer’s specific problems but by blurring the line between using a computer and programming one to the point where users can solve their own problems.

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Another formulation: the best of today’s GUIs make easy things easy and hard things impossible. The best of today’s programming languages make easy things hard and hard things harder. We don’t have a system that makes easy things easy and hard things merely hard for backwards-compatibility reasons.

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Bad idea of the day: a letter-writing campaign to members of CS program accreditation boards (at their home addresses) requesting algorithmic bias & data ownership be a part of mandatory ethics classes in the curriculum.

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Bad idea of the day: a program that computes the degree to which the response to a query meets gricean maxims and, if beyond a threshhold, produces potential implicatures, on a synthetic logic-based language and an ontology

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Bad idea of the day: An ebook reader program in two columns, where the second column is specifically for recording personal marginal notes & is the same size as the book’s text itself – notes pinned to the paragraph, line, or sentence. Call it ‘MARGINAL’.

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There are two classes of bug. One is where the program doesn’t match your mental model of the program. The other is when the problem doesn’t match your mental model of the problem. Most bugs are both.

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Jacquard grant proposal accepted!
The Jacquard\
program of
NWO and EZ has granted funding for the Nix-related project “Pull
Deployment of Services” (PDS), which is about improving the
deployment of software and services in complex heterogenous
environments. The grant consists of 368 K€ for a PhD student (4
years) and a postdoc (3 years). If you’re interested in these
positions, please h … ⌘ Read more

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