The cost of code
summary
Compares concrete costs and failures: 256 KB Super Mario sold 40 million copies for $25, a rare one-off where code is an asset; 1.5 million lines installed by create-react-app that become your responsibility after one command; real incidents — Meltdown 2–8% slowdown from CPU patches, Heartbleed in OpenSSL, Volkswagen’s emissions code costing >€20B and linked to ~59 deaths, and MCAS relying on one AoA sensor in the 737 MAX — plus resource impacts from 8 billion phones using 60 elements.
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chapters (28)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:28What does code cost
- 3:02Super Mario Bros
- 4:02Fixed Hardware
- 5:12Free Software
- 10:00React
- 15:19Heartbleed
- 17:00Open source entitlement complex
- 19:03Software gets endoflife
- 20:27Barclaycard
- 22:05Meltdown
- 23:02Intel
- 23:53Computers
- 24:44iPad
- 26:17Materials
- 30:56Recycling
- 31:47Phones
- 33:46The code
- 34:01The scandal
- 40:35Boeing 737
- 42:07Software is a failure
- 43:11Selfdriving cars
- 44:56Cambridge Analytica
- 46:17Facebook
- 47:02Senior executives
- 48:01Celebrating
- 48:34Systems view
- 49:37Be humble
