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Life In Code
A Personal History of Technology
Ellen Ullman 2017 Multco Hollywood 005.1092 U41L 2017
Author of Close to the Machine 2012 and The Bug 2004
- essay collection from years 1994, 1998 ... 2017
- p005 Programmers don't talk because they must not be interrupted ... Interruption means certain bugs.
- p012 The Japanese (sponsors) received what their money was intended to buy ... odd behavior ... real top-rate engineers.
- p015 Underlying every user-friendly interface is a terrific human contempt.
- p017 like push buttons on a toddler's toy
- p027 The internet: Mother's little helper for the male engineer
- p028 I'm an engineer ... love for the intricate lives of things
- p040 Slackware Linux on a PC, 1983/Stallman 1991/Torvalds
- p053 Silicon Valley Linux Users Group Torvalds presentation
p074 Ed Yardini Y2K doom
- p088 ... But people with too many choices are almost as unhappy as those with no choice at all.
- p103 "Now comes the light: 100 Mbits per second" (written 1999, now terabits per fiber pair across oceans )
p104 Toronto Computer, Freedom, and Privacy Conference