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I really appreciated the no nonsense, non-editorialized description of his experiences. Given the recent political climate, it is a nice change of pace.

The external monitor and wifi issues seem egregious, could these be OS related issues?

Not sure if there will be TouchBar user interface toolkit for java applications, but I spend a lot of time in IntelliJ. It would be great if the TouchBar rather than having to remember mappings, could have sets of labels [Step In, Step over...] during an active debug session or a different set during editing or presentation modes. Currently, the solution is to have myriad toolbars and icons bespeckle the window frame, which can be distracting and confusing, and all together take up some valuable laptop screen real estate.

I look forward to measuring graphics performance in FMPF (Flying Monkeys Per Frame)

I love how this article makes its reappearance on HN every two years...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4407188 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8812724

Orthogonal to the article, but: "He is widely considered one of the fathers of object-oriented programming, or OOP, which at its simplest is a “if-then” programming paradigm that links data to pinpointed procedures."

I'd like to think I have read a few definitions of OOP, I have to say I don't recognize the above - what does "pinpointed procedures" mean? Also, "if-then" programming doesn't seem like a paradigm or a necessary/representative flow control structure of OOP.

To be fair, I am not familiar with Smalltalk and perhaps this definition makes more sense in that context.

Last year they were hosted on Parley's and organized by conference location and year. A little harder to suss out the year and location this way. But excellent content nonetheless.

Watching the recorded feed from this summit is kind of nuts. You have Vint Cerf (co-inventor of TCP/IP) providing Q&A about a distributed digital archive of the internet and the first guy to ask a question is Carl Hewitt (developer of the Actor Model) and then the guy looking over his shoulder at Carl is Tim Berners-Lee (some web dude).

What languages would you say have definitely better tooling: I'd say for sure the .NET languages, C++, Java, and Javascript but I'd put Scala just at a level below that, no? The tooling stories for Go, Rust, Haskell I don't think are as strong (yet), but that's definitely going to change though.

In the past the videos from the Scala Days talks are usually posted online through Parley's, I expect that would happen again this year. Though it is usually a few weeks to a month or two after.

"Middle-Out" approach...wonder where they got that from?

This was probably grotesquely naive of me, but I literally had no idea how jenga-tower like the javascript ecosystem was. Eye opener!

As a relatively junior developer, I have been told my some of my senior colleagues that I sometimes miss the forest for the trees, and so this may be another instance of that.

But it doesn't seem "trivial" to me how one gets the output of nmap into whatever database, data structure one chooses here. I know nmap can produce XML, presumably there is a csv format, but it would seem like the XML/CSV -> JSON conversion (following our intrepid Modern App Developer) would be an easier more maintainable way to go, versus XML -> to bit array (memory map file). Also, is managing the nmap or masscan and whatever other ancillary processes required to execute this plan equally as onerous in either paradigm? Finally, and this is likely controversial, this particular problem "feels" like its stacked against the Modern App Developer, given that it isn't trying to solve a problem most Modern Apps try to solve (or try to solve as an end rather than a means to an end)