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Two of the most interesting ones I've seen this year: Brian Kernighan (of K&R fame, and much more) interviewing Ken Thompson (initial author of UNIX, though yo
by kick 7y ago
Two of the most interesting ones I've seen this year:
Brian Kernighan (of K&R fame, and much more) interviewing Ken Thompson (initial author of UNIX, though you probably already knew both of these): lots of interesting anecdotes, like getting a chess machine seized by the US government:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY6q5dv_B-o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY6q5dv_B-o
Drew DeVault, (sway/sr.ht/much more author) hacking on his Wayland VR desktop inside of his Wayland VR desktop (don't believe the people who say you can't do programming inside of VR yet!):
https://spacepub.space/videos/watch/f60bee0e-31d3-4aca-9e49-6fcdc87ad40d https://spacepub.space/videos/watch/f60bee0e-31d3-4aca-9e49-...
NB. the second video is on a PeerTube instance. PeerTube is a federated and decentralized YouTube alternative.
- pergadad 7y agoThe second video is truly impressive. On the other hand I'm getting a bit scared for the expectations for the average office worker 10-20 years from now.