To Watch

DHH: Writing Software Well

Lobsters thread on what videos are good

Other watching to be done later

• https://youtu.be/DOyNfmqwR98 Entwicklertag 2016: How Agile and OO have lost their way together - James Coplen
• Functional Architecture, the Pits of success: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=US8QG9I1XW0
• Excel - Getting wild in the Spreadsheets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ciH34Qexn4
• Extra Sci-Fi - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhyKYa0YJ_5AuEhpcGAo4ngmSDKuFgZZx

Watched

Portal 2 The Musical: https://youtu.be/QF7g3rCnD-w?t=213

How we know what we know about programming (Vimeo)

Notes:

** Look into the work of Professor Lutz(?) on programmer productivity  ** Why aren't more women in science (book)  ** Increasing length of a spec by 25% increases the complexity of the solution by 200%** (Not replicated, Boeing) Rewriting more than 25% of a component makes it easier to just rewrite it** (IBM, replicated?) 1 hour of reading code fills the mind, and reviewing code for 1 hour fixes more bugs than unit tests** (Data on Vista) Physical distance between developers has no impact on post-release bug rate. Distance on the org chart does ** Quote from HP: "We can't just have people going around and doing the right thing"** (Study from 2001) Someone looked at most metrics related to code complexity/quality are not more predictive than a simple wc -l** Beautiful Code** University is for learning how to take over the world, because the *** Becoming the grownup** The speaker ended with a focus on getting politically involved, like in the ACM

Ruby Rouges Ep 184: What do we actually know about software development, and why we believe it's true.

Notes:

** https://computinged.wordpress.com/** Most SE programs focus on Project Management, not evidence based ** Doubling rule, variance of effect needs to be combined with P-Value** Empirical Studies on Programmers conf** Picks *** by Greg Wilson**** Trick or Treatment**** Seeing like a State**** Code Complete (worth a reread)*** by Jessica**** Seeing like a State***** Reasons: shows why software is hard, due to all of the little details and little adjustments that happen in daily life*** by **** Cover My Meds**** Tracking your weight to lose weight*** by Andreas**** Walter Ticky Should Computer scientists experiment more (paper)**** Emperical analysis in programming language adoption**** Online Quorum interpreter

To Watch:

Parser and Lexer � How to Create a Compiler part 1/5 (Bisqwit)

Notes:

So, Bisqwits's presentation style starts off intriguing, but I haven't watched more than 30 seconds of this yet. But I want to.

> Some times you just need to make a compiler. There aren't many good reasons to make one today, other than exercise. … But when I made the JRPG translations, I really needed one. Compilers like GCC and Clang just do not target the 5A22 that is in the Super Nintendo.

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