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Casey live in a hypothetical world distant from reality.

Excellent discussion!

Great job by Casey and the interviewer Giovanni, excellent questions and inciteful answers

Fantastic video, brilliant very educational and explained in a way that made it very interesting. But I have to ask something which could be controversial for some if its taken the wrong way. For the life in me I do not understand why Alan Turing and his contributed has been elevated so much. Yes he made a good contribution But the contributions of others like Tommy flowers and Bill Tutt's where massively more significant. In this discussion its pointed out to us how it was the contributions of others, and what they discovered and worked out, that actually made collosus work. Enigma itself was not the key to anything, It was the intercept and breaking of lorenz, essentially the command and control communication link between all the nazi headquarters across Europe which was the big thing and without Tommy flowers and Tutt then there would have been nothing, they would never have been broken. Look at Rommel, he is lauded as a genius. But all along, Rommel had visibility of all of the plans of the British generals that opposed him. So he could prepare in advance for any attack and exploit any weak areas in Brit lines. All because the actions of a yank colonel, an observer given way too much access to plans which he broadcast every day back to the USA. The italians having broken into his safe and copied the yank codes. Rommel was no genius at all. This was one of those moments in history when the right people with the right imagination and intelligence came together all at the right time. Bit like the Beatles manager deciding not to walk past that record shop, which led to the guy in the shop introducing him to George martin. The coming together of Martin, the beatles, made all their magic happen. The pictures of Tutt and flowers should be on our 20 quid notes too. Where is the bust of tommy flowers? Where is the Tutt award for anything?

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Casey is a national treasure

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is it just me or was the interviewer a bit rude

The Van Neumann..bottle-neck needs to be solved...the structure itself is a working entity rather than on a regular PC where programming in ones and zeros...data exhibits itself as 'Spikes' rather than the previous mentioned ..the amplitude and shape of the spike contains the data...in other words

How is it that a video like this has this few comments? Oh well! Awesome stuff! All I could focus on in the background of this footage was the machine that would bring about Space War. But yeah. G.B. is great to listen to on the historic end of things. I also love what he said about the cell phone.

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Casey is so good about going on and on about nothing insightful. Guess he learned from Jonathan Blow.

Casey has good insights for the system's he has experience with, but he has little experience with enterprise applications. He has some good points about over-abstraction, which is important to NOT have. Another correct point: about Conway's Law and microservices. BUT his big mistake relevant for business applications: he says that minimizing the number of roundtrips between server and client makes better performance. Not true because often not possible, as users have to exchange data over the server.

“Algorithms Plus Data Structures = Programs” - one of the best computer books I ever read.

not only was Knuth programming in assembly, he was programming in his own assembly that was not implemented in any hardware.

Great conversation. Thanks a lot. Just one point, quite often you have to change the test when you change the implementation code while refactoring. It is not always a bad sign. Unit testing especially.

Having worked in as the sole c++ developer in a team of csharp developers, many ppl really have wrong idea about fast code and clean code. Casey has a video named simple fast code were he discusses that. For some reason people think writing classes and inheritance and virtual dispatch are the only way to code faster than 70s style assembly. They think the only way to reduce code duplication is using ton of abstraction, and templates. They think the only way to manage memory automatically if you use a garbage collection or raii. That is a very narrow way of thinking...

I stopped shopping at a certain supermarket chain because their self service checkout was horribly slow compared to a competitor.

And only a few will remember that Minix was the base for Linux

Casey got good points but the powers of inheritance and speed of reuse realilly is attractive to businesses. So speed of app vs speed of app dev is the question sometimes. But switch statements are under rated

Props to Casey for going on all these shows and arguing. It has to be exhausting.

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A bit of abstraction makes things easier ( that's why we make and use functions in the first place ), but a lot of abstractions makes code read like a wikipedia page, where you sometimes need to read a whole book to understand a single sentence, which, if rephrased, would only take twice as much space, but would be understandable even to a first grader.

I mean, isn't it obvious that you should make everything you can to work faster, so that when something you have no control over is improved (internet speed, database queries, disk speed, CPU speed etc) - your code automagically benefits from improved hardware/3rd party software? It kinda works both ways in a sense that if your code is only correct for current gen hardware - you are also doomed to rewrite the whole thing 10 years later(look at old games for like DOS or even early 2000s games, where physics and logic ONLY work at 30 frames a second, so when you try to run it on a much better hardware - the whole game breaks when you suddenly get 300 frames a second).

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Found this gem in Dr. Chuck course. Thanks for sharing!

Casey is exceptionally clear with his reasoning and communication. I sincerely hope a large cultural shift takes place so we don’t have to wait 20 seconds for a basic program to load anymore.

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RIP hero. <3

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RIP Nicklaus Wirth. He passed away few days ago .. on 1/1/2024 to be precise. I still remember his book Algorithms + Data structures = programs

Great interview. Love summarizing the story of operating systems (Unix, minix, Linux, .. ) in around 10 mins!

Great interview, thank you Brandon Eich and thank you Dr Chuck,!

The chapter in this video called "Modular" is a spelling error. The word is "Modula" - the name of a language Wirth invented as a follow-up to Pascal. Then there was Modula-2 which was followed up by Oberon.

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RIP Niklaus

I love his point about microservices. If more people thought about it in those terms, that the only benefit is organization structure, you would have less 20 developer teams splitting their application up into services thinking there is some other gains to be made. I had to work on a project where we ended up with about 5 services per developer, and it was actually less efficient than the original monolith it was replacing.

Thank you, Mr. Wirth and RIP. thank you for posting, cool to see a legend

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(An argument of a webdev is crushed. "Okay let's move on.") Repeat into infinity.

There's no question mark in the title of original video.

I didn't know Louis CK was so intelligent

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very informative video

Very interesting! Thank you.

Nice one Lukas!

Great questions!

Modern C is a very good book and perhaps misunderstood by new people - as it, for one, is broken up into different levels that seem to increase as you approach the end of the book. This book gives you information in C that you'll seldom find elsewhere.

NIST did a great job making sure everyone's on the same page with databases. They didn't rush it, so there's still room for new ideas, but they also didn't wait too long and miss out on different options!