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Andreessen's Corollary: Ethical Dilemmas in Software Engineering - Bryan Cantrill | Craft 2019

Bryan Cantrill's Craft 2019 talk on the ethical dilemmas software engineers face as software eats the world. He explores cases where engineering thinking conflicts with the law or personal morals, including Facebook's news feed experiments.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters recommend it as a good talk on ethics in software engineering, and Cantrill himself cites it as capturing his views.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
CraftHub Events
Topic
software engineering ethics
Format
talk
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
8
Recommendation years in dataset
2019–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • This year's Cantrill talks include one on Ethical Dilemmas [0] and another on the "Moore's Law" paper [1]. Highly recommend both. [0] [VIDEO] [1] [LINK]

    bitofhope on Hacker News · 2019-12
    In Ask HN: Best Talks of 2019?

  • Bryan Cantrill has a talk on YT on ethics in software [1]. And as I remember it the take away is that the way we think about problems isn't very conducive to obeying the law, or being good to people in general. And I've got …

    Bayart on Hacker News · 2020-12
    In SEC charges Robinhood $65M for misleading customers about revenue sources

  • Bryan Cantrill (DTrace etc) has a good talk on ethics in software engineering[0]. Skip to 12:29 where he recalls Facebook in 2011 experimenting with users news feeds. [0] [VIDEO]

    earleybird on Hacker News · 2021-12
    In CCPA Scam – Human subject research study conducted by Princeton University

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