It's an old book (first published in 2008 with mixed popularity), but 8 years later I remember it being a nice story on "what it's like to code" and accurately described the state of software engineering of its time. This was before Big Data was a thing, so you may find a lot of it out of date, but I think it fits what you're looking for.
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It's an old book (first published in 2008 with mixed popularity), but 8 years later I remember it being a nice story on "what it's like to code" and accurately described the state of software engineering of its time. This was before Big Data was a thing, so you may find a lot of it out of date, but I think it fits what you're looking for.
Good luck!
I also recommend a Room Defender: if it starts going off, someone is at your door.
Have you seen Joel's article on what his office looks like? http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BionicOffic e.html
Do you mean the Apache HTTP Server, the Apache Xerces XML Parser (C++), the Apache Xalan XSLT Processor, the log4Cxx, or the Apache Axis in C++ (to name a few)?
IBM is already working on that: CodeRuler
Maybe one could use VIN numbers as SSNs: when a car "dies" recycle it's VIN number.