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Sorry but the software world described here has little to do with my daily work in software. As most apps have moved to webapps, and most servers are now in the Cloud, and most devices are IoT cloud-connected, as all these trends have happened, the paradigm for software has evolved to maximizing change.
Software never was very re-usable itself, but frameworks and APIs turned out to have huge value, so now we have systems everywhere based a a layered approach from OS up to application, where application software is quite abstracted from the OS and hardware and support software ( e.g. webserver or database). However frameworks also change quickly these days - JQuery-Angular-React-Vue.js... (read more)
It feels to me like you are straying off the technical issues by looking at a huge picture.
In this case, a picture so huge it's unsolvable. So here's an assertion which might be interesting: Its better to focus on clusters of small, manageable machine-ethics problems and gradually build up to a Grand Scheme, or more likely in my guess, a Grand Messy But Workable System, rather than teasing-out a Bible of global ethical abstraction. There's no working consensus on ethical rules anyway, outside the Three Laws.
An example, maybe already solved: autonomous cars are coming quite soon, much sooner than most of us thought. Several people have wondered about the machine ethics... (read 494 more words →)
Sugar. Fruit or a glass of good juice or whatever works for you. Brain consumes quite a lot of energy, as probably all of you can quantify better than I. It is well understood in the software world that nobody can work well for hours straight. Everybody needs to take breaks. Young people foolishly believe they can do good work for hours on no sleep, but I don't agree.
Quiet. I am a bit deaf now, enough to have trouble parsing conversations. When I put on hearing protectors ( 10db? 20db? they work pretty well for $20) my IQ rises by 20 points. really.
Habit. Many years ago I had a friend who was the most prolific... (read more)
Well I've heard those bank APIs break a lot. I think I am trying to say that software lifespan is not at all what it used to be 10-15 years ago. Software is just not a *thing* that gets depreciated, its a thing that never stops changing. This company here too separates infrastructure engineering from software, but that's not how the big kids play, and I am learning some bitter lessons about why. It really is better if the developers are in charge of deployment. Or at least constantly collaborating with the DevOps crew and the OPs crew. Granted every project has its special requirements, so no idea works everywhere. But "throw... (read more)