programming
1:08Winning at programming competitions is a negative factor for being good on the job
67K views • 11 years ago
pkrumins
A one-minute clip of Peter Norvig saying that Google found programming contest success correlates negatively or poorly with job performance. The description links to a blog post discussing it.
0:27Rob Pike about the target group of the Go programming language (golang)
7K views • 6 years ago
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A short excerpt of Rob Pike's Lang.NEXT 2014 talk where he describes Go's target audience as young Google programmers who are not researchers. The language has to be easy for them to understand and adopt.
2:45Using JSLint For Evil
15K views • 15 years ago
ryantravistate
A three-minute clip in which Douglas Crockford explains why he allowed the JSLint reference implementation to be used for evil. It recounts the license clause and how corporate lawyers reacted.
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