Putting the engineering in computer science and the science in software engineering. Married to the exquisite @stacyhochstein. Surfing complexity at Netflix.
Whenever I get discouraged and want to quit something, I remember the words of my then 3 year-old after she puked carrots all over the living room floor: "I'm gonna need more carrots."
I hate it when mobile apps abuse my "trust" w.r.t. notifications. I kind of want Uber/UberEats to be able to notify me when a car arrives or something like that, but I don't want to leave them open to randomly spam me with discount offers, etc.
“That’s when I realized something about everybody involved in all of these arguments.
They’ve never built a bridge.
Nobody I read in these arguments, not one single person, ever worked as a “real” engineer.”
In 2019 I started the Crossover Project, where I studied how software and "real" engineering relate by interviewing people who've worked in both. 17 interviews, 12 hours of recordings, and untold hours editing later, I'm finally ready to share my findings! hillelwayne.com/post/crossov…
I think @hillelogram should get a Turing Award for doing this research. It’s a bit of an embarassment to the field of software engineering research that nobody has ever done it before.
Until this point, discussions of whether software engineering was really engineering were the equivalent of this Onion article. theonion.com/area-man-passio…