I once got the opportunity to ask Gordon Moore a question, “what is the equivalent of Moore’s Law for software?” His response, “number of bugs doubles every year”. Great man.
Wirth's law :)
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
I sometimes make myself a mental list of famous people who are expected to die soon. The following people will all die in the next few years: Jimmy Carter (98), Henry Kissinger (99), Dick Cheney (82), Pope Francis (86), Paul McCartney (80), John Williams (91), William Shatner (92), and Ali Khamenei (83).
Sadly Mick Jagger is on my list, his death would mark the end of an era.
Related:
"I think youngsters need to start thinking about the kind of world they are going to leave for me and Keith Richards (79)." - Willie Nelson (89)
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#173Oh man, I was just at the Monterey Bay Aquarium earlier today reading a sign that said, "This exhibit made possible by Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Moore".
No tapping on the glass. Moore's law.
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#175Moore's law is really dead now
Moore died so his law could live on.
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#176How incredible is it, that I'm writing software on a laptop, connected to the internet over wifi, all while being 38,000 feet in the air. And all this enabled by billions of tiny transistors made from sand. And to make this all the more surreal, I'm sitting next to someone who knew him. Thank you Gordon Moore. RIP.
Hacker Newsing above the clouds? What a world we live in…
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#177Thank you Mr.Moore, RIP.
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reading errata for Intel/AMD processors would be an eye opening experience then. There are so many bugs in features you never heard of, just like software. It is inevitable given the complexity.
I'm sure there are tons of bugs, I was told a few stories by people in aerospace industry. But I think they cannot survive if they don't keep the number ultra low, because they can't fix it (well except microcode level).
They can't fix it, but compiler teams can.
It's a testament to those unsung heroes that most high-level language users can remain blissfully unaware of how much is automatically fixed by compilers in their emitted instructions.
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#179I would like to propose "Grove's Axiom" which basically states:
If you're failing, pivot to what your replacement will do before you fail.
"In the midst of the doldrums of 1985, Grove posed a hypothetical question to his colleague Gordon Moore: “If we got kicked out and the board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do?” Moore answered without hesitation, “He would get us out of memories.” To which Grove responded, “Why shouldn’t you and I walk out the door, come back and do it ourselves?” [1]