Programming in the 21st Century

[This is a programming blog I really enjoyed this year. Here’s his blog post linking to popular and favorite posts from 2012. -Egg]

Popular articles from 2012

A Programming Idiom You’ve Never Heard Of

Recovering From a Computer Science Education

Don’t Fall in Love With Your Technology

A Complete Understanding is No Longer Possible

Solving the Wrong Problem

This is Why You Spent All that Time Learning to Program

We Who Value Simplicity Have Built Incomprehensible Machines

The Pace of Technology is Slower than You Think

Your Coding Philosophies are Irrelevant

Things to Optimize Besides Speed and Memory

Hopefully More Controversial Programming Opinions

Do You Really Want to be Doing This When You’re 50?

OOP Isn’t a Fundamental Particle of Computing

Others from 2012 that I personally like

Turning Your Code Inside Out

The Most Important Decisions are Non-Technical

You, Too, Can Be on the Cutting Edge of Functional Programming Research

The Silent Majority of Experts

All that Stand Between You and a Successful Project are 500 Experiments

Dangling by a Trivial Feature

(Here’s last year’s retrospective.)

Why the Massive Wealth of the 1% Could Ruin the Economy – Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee – The Atlantic

[Here’s the third (well, second) part of this thought-provoking three-part series. -egg]

Why the Massive Wealth of the 1% Could Ruin the Economy – Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee – The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/10/why-the-massive-wealth-of-the-1-could-ruin-the-economy/247277/

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"London-based Zaha Hadid, widely regarded as one of the leading lights in the constellation of…"

[The future is not going to get less weird any time soon. -egg]

“London-based Zaha Hadid, widely regarded as one of the leading lights in the constellation of…”: “
London-based Zaha Hadid, widely regarded as one of the leading lights in the constellation of avant-garde architecture, has likewise become a superstar in China, where her latest designs radiate out through architecture schools and studios across the country. On a recent trip to Beijing, 15,000 artists, architects and other fans swarmed to a talk she gave for the opening of the futuristic Galaxy SOHO complex — just one of 11 projects she is designing across the country.

But the appeal of the Prtizker Prize winner’s experimental architecture, especially since the unveiling of her glowing, crystalline Guangzhou Opera House two years ago, has expanded so explosively that a contingent of pirate architects and construction teams in southern China is now building a carbon copy of one of Hadid’s Beijing projects.

What’s worse, Hadid said in an interview, she is now being forced to race these pirates to complete her original project first.
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– Pirated Copy of Design by Star Architect Hadid Being Built in China – SPIEGEL ONLINE