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Today I discuss the implications of ethics in software development. We’ll take a look at some of my personal experience, and 2 new Netflix documentaries: The Social Dilemma, and Challenger: The Final Flight. IBM and the Nazis – HBR podcast on IBM and the Holocaust Twitter apologizes for racist algorithm – Controversy on twitter algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster – Challenger Disaster Clean Coder – code of conduct for software engineers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Dilemma – Social Dilemma Movie Facebook ethics considerations – coverage of Facebook performing user sentiment analysis
A look at major new developments in the coding world for C/C++ – and some brief talk on Amazon BottleRocket and Microsoft’s Hyper-V advancements. Amazon Announcement for “BottleRocket” Linux distribution ZDNet Coverage – Microsoft Hyper-V patches for Linux kernel as root Infoworld Coverage – C++20 technical approval CMake feature tracker – CMake C++ modules support C++ Coroutines – Microsoft devlog entry on C++20 coroutines MSVC 16.8 preview 3 – Microsoft improving conformance devlog Python 3.9 Update
For new and aspiring developers – in this episode I answer the #1 question asked from future coders – should I go to college? Pros and Cons of a college degree and the University system. Contents: The Cold Truth of Job Seeking. Beware of For-Profit systems. Selecting a Degree. The actual meaning of a Computer Science degree.
We return to the early 80s and 90s to discuss the rise of consumer access to Usenet and the following decline of the service and its rise to the ranks of the undead. Contents: Show introduction Merging of networks SPAM, SPAM, more SPAM A brief analysis of the “Decline” Resources: Mozilla Thunderbird: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/ Eternal September: https://www.eternal-september.org/ Sources: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9987679 – Hacker News forum conversation from 2015 discussing the decline of Usenet availability with ISPs https://web.archive.org/web/20100726200800/www.dukenews.duke.edu/2010/05/usenet.html – Duke shuts down its usenet server https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Adams_(Internet_pioneer) https://web.archive.org/web/20070822223030/https://faqs.cs.uu.nl/na-dir/usenet/software/part1.html – Earlier Usenet Documentation ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/doc/programming/ – FTP archive including papers on usenet https://www.giganews.com/usenet-history/ – Giganews Usenet History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe – History of CompuServ http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/TheSeptemberThatNeverEnded – Endless September https://www.fastcompany.com/3046194/a-brief-history-of-aol – History of AOL https://groups.google.com/g/net.news.group/c/uWqKiWoiaSA/m/yJZ1uqmCGtIJ – Great Renamining Commentary https://groups.google.com/g/news.misc/c/AT2DFqBWgw4 – Usenet discussion on “Commercial Access” https://youtu.be/1npzZu83AfU – Early AOL TV commercial https://www.zdnet.com/article/usenet-junk-e-mail-could-swamp-the-system-friday/ – Spam protest. http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Fight-Child-Porn-ByDoing-Nothing-Differently-96080 – DSL reports article and thread on dropping news groups. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2008/07/02/broadband-adoption-in-the-united-states/ – Broadband uptake in the united states Credits: Music by Audionautix.com – Creative Commons licensed music and commercial options available.
Today, we go back in time to the late 70’s and observe the events that led to the creation of newgroups and usenet. Especially as this podcast covers historic events, factual corrections will be attached to the original post and/or episode as required. Contents: Introduction The A News Reader The B News Reader Creation of UUNET C News Reader, and NNTP Lessons Learned Sources in essay form will be included as a follow-up to the next episode.
After repeated encouragement from friends and coworkers, I’ve decided to take a dive into the world of podcasting. We’ll see if this is something that can keep going or not – but for now, I introduce the first episode of my podcast for this site. Show contents: Introduction Inspiration“suckless.org” software project Rebuilding fun in open source development Venting to the world Future contentDistribution and software ecosystem coverage Computer science topics, experiments, and interesting papers New developments in programming (C/C++) and technology