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New episode of RuntimeArguments tackles cargo cult programming
Original: Episode 40 of @ RuntimeArguments is live at RuntimeArguments.fm: "Cargo Cult Programming". Wolf @ YesJustWolf leads with
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.
Why now: Listeners are being alerted to the new episode and its use of Feynman's classic critique as a lens on software development habits.
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- Episode 40 of @ RuntimeArguments is live at RuntimeArguments.fm: "Cargo Cult Programming". Wolf @ YesJustWolf leads with Feynman's 1974 Caltech talk, where South Pacific islanders building runways and wooden headphones after WWII become a warning for anyone doing everything… · RuntimeArguments@hachyderm.io · 2
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