Software is so interesting. You build something with materials that cost next to nothing and it can do work trillions of times for billions of people for next to nothing.
-
It is essentially the design embodied in the machines that comprised industrialization, but abstracted out of the physical machines.
Before digital computers, making things consisted of design followed by manufacturing. With software, when the design is finished, you're done.
-
-
Don’t you have to maintain it though?
-
If you chose not to, you'd be in exactly the position that you'd be in if the software were embodied in the design of a machine. So this is an unusual kind of "have to," the kind that implies an opportunity to do something good, rather than the kind that means you're forced to.
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
Karl Marx got it right: the means of production are finally free for all. At least in terms of software production.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Like manufacturing we will end up with tiny blocks of code (machines) which can then be combined other tiny blocks of code to make bigger machines or a assembly lines that entertains or insures or provide banking for people.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Look beyond industrialization and you’ll discover that you’re not done when the design is finished, but have simply neglected the behavioral and cultural scales. Industrialization takes physical and chemical scales. You’re not in touch with the others in this argument.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
The manufacturing part in software engineering is the coding/testing/tuning part, which can take years and hundreds of developers to build. Similar to large-scale physical industry build cycles.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Almost metaphysical category distinctions (thought vs. sand??) are made nonsense by computers. The adjustment needed is bigger than just a paradigm shift and we're nowhere near it after three plus generations.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.