Below is a somewhat whimsical talk given by James Mickens last year titled Life as a Developer: My Code Does Not Work Because I am a Victim of Complex Societal Factors That are Beyond My Control.
(If you recall, Mickens is the guy who did the insane/awesome Monitorama talk about the cloud a few years ago.)
As usual for dear begoateed James it is full of silly digressions, but the theme is quite an important one today: unnecessary complexity is increasing and that trend will conspire with our own limited capacity for comprehension, information retention, research of the new and obscure, and interpersonal communication to ensure that if we keep going as we are the whole world will eventually succumb to entropy and leave us in a big ball of digital hellfire.
Life As A Developer: My Code Does Not Work Because I Am A Victim Of Complex Societal Factors That Are Beyond My Control…. from NDC Conferences on Vimeo.