If you watch the documentaries for “The Incredibles,” you learn Brad Bird was inspired by overhearing neighbor ladies insult his stay-at-home wife and mother of their children, when it was clear to him she was a hero. A backyard BBQ version of this got as far as storyboards, and
Let’s also reflect on the fact the Firefox team were very experienced C++ developers, had the ability to hire the best, had a 250KLOC+ C++ CSS engine they tried to make concurrent because CSS benefits a LOT from it, suffered from massive memory-management issues, and decided it
there is a surprisingly large amount of people that think not being able to write memory safe C/C++ is a "skill issue"
I want all those people to watch & listen to this video of Azure CTO very carefully
Google, Microsoft and others are very open that C/C++ is a problem
Yes.
Also because it’s easier to PRETEND to eat from an opaque container. Virtually all scenes involving eating are simulated, to avoid full mouths, digestive issues later, etc.
Haskell doesn't make I/O hard; it reveals that I/O is hard.
Rust doesn't make manual memory management hard; it reveals that manual memory management is hard.
People think Rust is hard and makes you less productive. But I think when you grow comfortable with Rust, you‘ll learn that theres a lot less mental overhead involved in writing Rust code than other languages. The compiler is a safety net, not your enemy.
Haskell doesn't make I/O difficult; it reveals that I/O is difficult.
Rust doesn't make manual memory management difficult; it reveals that manual memory management is difficult.
One time Dijkstra was accused of making programming more difficult and responded that he was only revealing how difficult programming is.
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I asked one interviewer about Fizzbuzz a decade and a half or so ago. He told me it was to weed out candidates who were lying about being able to program. At all.
I thought he was exaggerating then. I was wrong.
The bar for technical interviews continues to fall lower and lower
I have taken to asking candidates what version of Python they write (so I can ask them some version-specific questions)
Then they tell me nonsensical version numbers, which is sometimes indicative that they're
