Microsoft Encarta: Let Wizard Do It

Principal Software Engineer Larry Osterman shares some early Microsoft stories and tells us who would play him in a movie about Microsoft.
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[00:58] Microsoft hardware and software you wish would come back & why
[01:50] If you could pair program with anyone, who would it be & why?
[02:23] Being a programmer in the '90s
[04:08] Dancing baby
[04:11] Favorite dev setups
[05:18] How Do You Pronounce It?
[06:35] Y2K
[08:47] Mythical Man Month & favorite tech books
[10:46] Who would play you in a movie?
[11:13] Early Microsoft story
[14:01] Getting stuck on code
[17:30] Favorite IDE extensions
[18:50] Productivity hacks
[21:05] Customizations in Visual Studio
[22:00] Computers taking over the world
[23:24] SkyNet, robots, and AI
[24:50] Least favorite feature
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Installing Visual Studio 2005: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDn7RD8sEZ8
1-minute Encarta tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoJInibT_Ik&t=5s
Retro Tech at #MSIgnite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SspDuKS-TyM
Note: *This episode was shot on a Canon ZR830 Mini DV Camcorder and then converted to digital.*
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1. I enjoyed the interview a lot. Good questions, fascinating answers.
2. Thanks for the high praise for I couldn't get the public comment thing to work. I enjoyed your interview a lot.
Thanks for your extravagant praise for The Mythical Man-Month.
I don't think it's quite accurate to say it's all still relevant. Glance at Chap 9!
Correction: The first edition was published in 1975, not 1965.
The Anniversary Edition was published in 1995, with four new chapters.
If you haven't read the '95 edition's additions, I think you will enjoy them. My publisher wanted a 20th anniversary edition, and I didn't want to do a whole new edition. So he tricked me.
He took Nancy and me out to lunch when we were in Orlando for a conference, and he persuaded her that there should be a 20th anniv. edition.
We reprinted the original with only typo corrections and added four new chapters.
Chapter 16 reprints the best technical paper I ever wrote—"No Silver Bullet", 1985. That paper predicted that there would not be within 10 years a single development giving an order-of-magnitude improvement in software productivity. That paper aroused a lot of published critique.
Chapter 17 comments on the most cogent of the criticisms.
Chapter 18 strips away the rhetoric in TMM-M, and leaves the barebone assertions to be believed, refuted, or tested.
Chapter 19 is the updating essay, covering 1975-95. It tells what was right in '75 and still was in '95; what was right in '75 but was no longer true in '95; and what was wrong to start with in '75, but I knew better than in 1995.
I have another book you might not have seen: The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist (2010). It's about design in any domain, not just software. Part V is worked examples to flesh out the general assertions.
Half the critics like them and half think they are ridiculous
Would it be possible to have the reference of the second text book Larry mentioned?