The story of Icarus is the story of inadequacies of wax as an adhesive.

I'd understand your take, if you wrote this 200 years ago. But holy shit, we've been doing powered, heavier-than-air flight for over a century. People put their footsteps on the Moon, and then they safely came back to tell about it.

If anything, I see such takes as a great example why the talks about "hubris" and "playing god" are not just wrong - they're dangerous, perverse, mind-consuming memes. Literally every advancement we've made in recorded history came from ignoring this take on hubris.

(To be clear: there exist hubris that is dangerous. It's not this though.)

Algorithmic bias is a well-known and widely-studied phenomenon. At least as far back as the early 2000s, researchers were publishing about it. Perhaps something that should be required reading for programmers.

Picturing algorithmic surveillance: the politics of facial recognition systems https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/20067

The Hidden Biases in Big Data https://hbr.org/2013/04/the-hidden-biases-in-big-data

Police are using software to predict crime. Is it a ‘holy grail’ or biased against minorities? https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/police-ar...

Automating Judicial Discretion: How Algorithmic Risk Assessments in Pretrial Adjudications Violate Equal Protection Rights on the Basis of Race https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...

How We Analyzed the COMPAS Recidivism Algorithm https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-analyzed-the-compa...

I am a professional technical writer. When I started out, I desperately looked for tips and tricks. Internet was (and is) full of tips but I could not find a tech-writing bibliography.

I will soon publish a bibliography of books and guides regarding technical writing. I promise to paste a link here when I am finished, which I believe I will be in a day or two.

Here's a recent research paper discussing the security implications of typo tolerant authentication schemes: http://www.arijuels.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CAAJ16.pd...

“The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.” - Alan J. Perlis

I've always wondered the following:

- What precisely constitutes a burnout?

- How do you objectively differentiate between a challenging situation and over-stressed situation leading to burnout?

- What are the differences in tolerance for stressful situation from person to person? Is it related to certain personalities?

- How to conduct a self-analysis to determine if you're going through a burnout?

- Do other non-software professions go through burnout? Alternatively, is software engineering more prone to burnout?

I've always heard of burnout, but like depression which has specific symptoms and clinical diagnosis, what are the properties, symptoms and characteristics of a burnout?

I am wondering if I am going through one? I like what you said about guilt - I feel like I've gone through hell in workplaces and always curious if I should just "suck-it-in" or quit and find a better job.