RuntimeArguments

Episode 40 of the RuntimeArguments podcast, titled "Cargo Cult Programming", is now available at RuntimeArguments.fm. Host Wolf opens with Richard Feynman's famous 1974 Caltech commencement speech, in which islanders in the South Pacific built mock runways and wooden headphones after World War II in hopes of summoning cargo planes — a metaphor Feynman used to warn against pseudoscience, now applied to developers who copy patterns without understanding them.