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Baishampayan Ghose
July 19, 2014
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On Solving Problems
In which I discuss progress and means of achieving it.
Baishampayan Ghose
July 19, 2014
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㔳䒭 䒉眠 On Solving Problems
㔳䒭 䒉眠 Or, how the present can’t lead us वैश$पायन
घोष (बीजी) CTO/Co-founder Helpshift, Inc. to our future
㔳䒭 䒉眠 The problem Human Powered Flight
㔳䒭 䒉眠 A centuries old puzzle… da Vinci’s Notebook
㔳䒭 䒉眠 Paul MacCready
㔳䒭 䒉眠 Paul MacCready Kremer Prize 1977
㔳䒭 䒉眠 Paul MacCready Kremer Prize 1977 & 1979
㔳䒭 䒉眠 The problem is, that we don’t understand the
problem.
㔳䒭 䒉眠 How is it done here?
㔳䒭 䒉眠 Doghouse Pattern
㔳䒭 䒉眠 x 100 {h=3, w=3, b=3} Let’s scale this,
baby!
㔳䒭 䒉眠 x 100 {h=3, w=3, b=3} Let’s scale this,
baby!
㔳䒭 䒉眠 x 100 {h=3, w=3, b=3} Let’s scale this,
baby!
㔳䒭 䒉眠 x 100 {h=3, w=3, b=3} It’s a feature!
Let’s scale this, baby!
㔳䒭 䒉眠 Functional Imperative Object Oriented Relational Yadda Yadda Our
Programming Approach
㔳䒭 䒉眠 Functional Imperative Object Oriented Relational Yadda Yadda Make
and fix Our Programming Approach
㔳䒭 䒉眠 Architecture n. the art or practice of designing
structures
㔳䒭 䒉眠 You’re here Where we stand today
㔳䒭 䒉眠 Where we want to be You’re here
㔳䒭 䒉眠 future = f(past)
㔳䒭 䒉眠 B5000 Burroughs
㔳䒭 䒉眠 B5000 Burroughs ca. 1961 Bob Barton
㔳䒭 䒉眠 B5000 Burroughs ca. 1961 High level bytecode Automatic
thread safety Capabilities Multiple processors Uncrashable(!) Bob Barton
㔳䒭 䒉眠 Internet The
㔳䒭 䒉眠 Internet The ca. 1983 Vint Cerf Bob Kahn
㔳䒭 䒉眠 Internet The ca. 1983 Capable of organic evolution
Upgrade, modify running system Never stopped since started Vint Cerf Bob Kahn
㔳䒭 䒉眠 Lessons learnt Understand the problem Ignore history at
your own risk Design should be a deliberate practice Our software need to support evolution
㔳䒭 䒉眠 hack integrate test ship repeat
㔳䒭 䒉眠 hack integrate test ship repeat Grow your software.
Hell, yeah!
㔳䒭 䒉眠 "We can't learn to see unless we realise
we're blind!” — Alan Kay
㔳䒭 䒉眠 Thank you! @ghoseb
㔳䒭 䒉眠 λ