GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree
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#2The Tech Tree is a selection of works intended to describe how the world makes and uses software today, as well as an overview of how computers work and the foundational technologies required to make and use computers.
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#3The books under Fiction, Culture, and History - meant to demonstrate our "current culture" - include a number of pretty bleak titles.
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#4How often are tech trees used in software development/ project management?
I’m leading a hardware development project and I made a tech tree for my team- but I had only ever seen them in video games. Would love some professional examples
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#5The text uses the words "culture", "human history", and "the world/our world". But reading the list of sources included, it seems to mean "the English culture" of US + UK. That's a bit of a shame IMHO.
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#6It's strange that they've omitted video-games which are the intersection of software and culture these days.
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#7It's strange that they've omitted video-games which are the intersection of software and culture these days.
Yea, I mean video-games are THE way of software sneaking into culture.
I mean there is also programming culture but it's constantly changing, split into a innumerable number of sometimes conflicting variants and is often more like work culture then art. But it's also art, it's complicated tbh. I mean how many opinions are based around what feels nice and/or looks nice instead of what works most reliable and well? Through then this is also where innovations sometimes starts, with libraries which do look and feel nice but do not yet work supper well.
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#8Some curious selections there:
- 4 books on SQL but none on key/value, graph, document, time series, bigtable etc databases.
- 3 books on C, 2 on JS but none on Haskell (leading FP language) or Scala (first to bridge FP/OOP).
- None on search engines / algorithms even though it's the most widely used aspect of computing.
- None on anything mobile even though it's the dominant computing platform.
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#9Some curious selections there: - 4 books on SQL but none on key/value, graph, document, time series, bigtable etc databases. - 3 books on C, 2 on JS but none on Haskell (leading FP language) or Scala (first to bridge FP/OOP). - None on search engines / algorithms even though it's the most widely used aspect of computing. - None on anything mobile even though it's the dominant computing platform.
I was also surprised they picked "Programming Rust" over "The Rust Programming Language" book.
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#10The books under Fiction, Culture, and History - meant to demonstrate our "current culture" - include a number of pretty bleak titles.
The inclusion of Anathem and A Canticle for Leibowitz in a library intended to survive through a societal collapse does seem appropriate.