Interesting Links for 19-01-2021

[andrewducker]

Asking engineers what they think of software engineering

(tags:softwareengineering software engineering society regulation history viaFanf )

Are you envious of Umberto Eco's library?

(tags:library books video )

"EU needs masterplan to move financial business away from London" says largest parliamentary group

(tags:Europe UK finance Doom )

Comments

[foms]

I have a memory of reading something from him about "no, these are just the ones I have to read by Friday - I keep the rest at the office". Probably, somewhere in How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays.

Edit: How to Justify a Private Library: "No, these are the ones I have to read by the end of the month. I keep the others in my office"

[andrewducker]

An excellent reply!

[foms]

I am encouraged. Thank you.

I have another vague memory that leads me to the idea that Eco was responding to another answer to the same question. Honoré de Balzac, maybe: Of course not. I'm collecting possibilities.