THE VIDEO SHELF · software engineering as engineering
Software Art Thou: Glenn Vanderburg - Real Software Engineering
Glenn Vanderburg asks whether software development can be real engineering, surveying other engineering disciplines and decades of programming experience. He envisions what a software engineering worthy of the name might look like.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it in debates about software engineering rigor, agile, and formal methods.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Zendesk
- Topic
- software engineering as engineering
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2026
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 discussion reminds me of a talk given by Glenn Vanderburg ( [VIDEO] ), wherein he explores the question of whether "software engineering" is or can really be engineering. Around the 27 minute mark, he quotes Billy Vaughn Koen, a nuclear engineer, as follows: "The …
kmstout on Hacker News · 2020-02
In Why are we so bad at software engineering?Saw an interesting talk just about this topic [1] The gist of it was: Other engineering disciplines use the techniques you've mentioned because of the the costs, both time and money, associated with getting it wrong. Software engineering lends itself to different methods of development …
modal-soul on Hacker News · 2020-05
In Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big dealYou have any stats on that or just the feeling? I find that a lot of flaws are ignored in for example physical structures because they don’t even know. Take construction inspector and walk with him through five buildings. Let me know if he left …
ozim on Hacker News · 2026-06
In My 1992 view of the problems of computer programming in 1992
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