Anyone have good philosophical reading takes on the law of leaky abstractions?https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-abstractions/ …
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Three of my favorites on the philosophical side: Daston's Objectivity https://amazon.com/dp/189095179X is wonderful (and has a great bibliography), though it is not about programming per se.
@meaningness's related takes, e.g. https://meaningness.com/eggplant/pebbles … and https://meaningness.com/metablog/abstract-emergent … 1/n1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Michael Weisberg's work https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Jp3qICQAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao … There is also a lot written by process philosophers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_philosophy … whom you may already know highlight process/substance metaphysical slippage as leaks' source… 2/n
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e.g. Heidegger (Being and Time https://amazon.com/dp/0061575593 ) or Whitehead (Process and Reality https://amazon.com/dp/0029345707 ) 3/n
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Three of my favorites takes from practitioners: Ousterhout's A Philosophy of Software Design https://amazon.com/dp/B07N1XLQ7D especially chapters 2 and 5–9 Kent's Data and Reality https://amazon.com/dp/B0086WGJ7W — I highly recommend the 2nd edition over the 3rd: https://github.com/jhulick/bookstuff/blob/master/Data%20and%20Reality.pdf … 4/n
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Kiczales's "Why Black Boxes are so Hard to Reuse" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l2wMgm7ZOk … (slides and transcript available on WayBack: https://web.archive.org/web/20100718215318/people.engr.ncsu.edu/efg/517/f00/syllabus/annotations/lec13.html …) OK four of my favorites, actually: also
@garybernhardt's "Ideology" https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/ideology 5/52 replies 0 retweets 5 likes -
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(Weird factoid: Gregor Kiczales was my housemate for a couple of years in graduate school)
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Alec Resnick Retweeted nicole
ha, amazing! FWIW, I suspect you have great suggestions on
@nwilliams030's original question:https://twitter.com/nwilliams030/status/1229460050915270656 …Alec Resnick added,
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Yours were excellent!
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