Excellent pair of posts: meta-rational advice on software development at the wizard level. They appear to directly contradict each other, but both are powerful ways of thinking about complex systems. https://blog.nelhage.com/post/computers-can-be-understood/ … https://blog.nelhage.com/post/systems-that-defy-understanding/ …
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Yep! I got the Agans book in Feb as that was the HN consensus on best first book. Only read part of it... it's not exactly revelatory so far, but easy read and some good war stories of annoying bugs
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We had a bug where a board would become unreliable after running for a few minutes and power cycling wouldn’t fix it. My moonshot crazy theory was that flux residue becomes conductive enough when warm to cause trouble. Contrary to everyone’s conviction it turned out to be true.
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