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This talk took some weird directions. It's called "What Unix Cost Us", but to be honest it isn't. Starts with USB-driver coding in Win, Mac, Linux. Goes over
by BlackLotus89 7y ago
This talk took some weird directions. It's called "What Unix Cost Us", but to be honest it isn't.
Starts with USB-driver coding in Win, Mac, Linux.
Goes over to colonialism.
Made some good points about Computer-architecture and how they shape programming languages and then some bad/wrong points.
Ends on community cultures and some controversial thoughts about gender equality and then he doesn't take any questions.
Talks off a shitstorm and then isn't ready to face it. Don't know have seen better videos about the same topic.
- magicalhippo 7y agoIt had some interesting points, but also some weird detours. One of his core points revolve around hanging on to the way things were, and how that often ends up poorly. Though I got this feeling that really, it's that often it's just really difficult to come up with good abstractions. Abstractions is after all what allows us to be so productive with our hardware. For example, Electron and similar is abstracting away the operating system, which makes sense because for a lot of programs the specifics of the operating system doesn't really matter. However JavaScript and HTML can hardly be described as the best way of obtaining that abstraction.