Tag: Recordings

Jon Steward on Trevor Noah’s What Now Podcast

No one has discernment for what they aren’t. […] You can’t. It’s the hardest thing in the world. It’s hard enough to have empathy to what they aren’t let alone discernment. […]
— Jon Steward at 50:30

If we were more understanding of prejudice and stereotype and less tolerant of racism we’d understand that prejudice and stereotype are functions mostly of ignorance and of experience. Racism is malevolent, right? But the other is way more natural, but we react as though it would metastasize immediately. And so I think we throw out barriers to each other […] before we have to.
— Jon Steward at 56:00

We’ll Ask The AI How to Make Money

We have no current plans to make revenue.

We have no idea how we may one day generate revenue.

We have made a soft promise to investors that once we’ve built a general intelligence system, basically we will ask it to figure out a way to generate an investment return for you.

Sam Altman to VCs in 2024

A video of this memorable moment … you can’t make this up.

JavaScript History’s Future as Seen From 2022

Brian Sletten presents an overview of the WebAssembly landscape, the development direction and applications it enables. I can’t but notice that we’re really on the path to WebAssembly becoming the JavaScript-derived universal runtime Gary Bernhardt promised in 2014. 🤯

We Really Are Engineers 🎉

Hillel Wayne interviewed people who have worked professionally both as a software and a traditional engineer (from a diverse set of engineering disciplines) to determine if “software engineers” are really engineers … and, yes we are.

He also analyzes myths from and about software engineering and tries to find out if there’s actually something that makes software engineering unique among the other engineering disciplines.

Multi-step Refactoring Pains in C++

Titus Winters talks about maintaining and refactoring large C++ code bases (i.e. code bodies that require multi-step refactoring). He describes how “higher-level” language features effectively make refactoring harder (e.g. functions, classes, templates, concepts).