Book
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
On choosing problems. The one that keeps being right about the next ten years.
- Status
- read
- Author
- Richard Hamming
- Rating
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
A course on how to work, delivered by someone who had watched several technology generations arrive and leave.
The chapter people quote is the one about choosing important problems. The one that mattered here is duller: Hamming keeps asking what will still be true when the hardware has changed by a factor of a thousand.
Applied
Storage formats outlive the software that writes them. That is the whole bet of putting this site in a CRDT with a published wire protocol rather than in whatever database was convenient — the documents should be readable when this module is gone.