He wrote different books about Rust, Cybersecurity, etc.
I just wonder if he may have used, I don't know, a VPN with blacklisted IPs and because he had many connections to his account from it, he was flagged.
Not sure if this was taken into account, but I think there's a huge issue with the study subject itself: violence has always been there, especially in the past, death was not hidden, people were beaten and executed in public, and that violence was not necessarily what would draw people to more violence.
The real question is ethics and morality in a violent context.
And I don't think that aspect was taken into consideration.
The problem is that when you try to not do so, there’s a bunch who comes at you with knifes at your throat: “it’s not our job to code and maintain this”.
Even something which would require 5 lines of code, they would install a package.
I think that may be a really good project. I’m pretty sure if you could make it work properly, a lot of organic farmers would invest into such a solution.
It’s funny how much we limit our understanding of the past by our own current limits.
Back in the days I had quite old teachers who knew few dozens long poems by heart and most of them learnt in their youth.
I think that the way we manage our memory and the context as well as the ratio short/long term memory demands scoped to that context is totally different and is diverging from old times.
As for the writing, there are many instances of long novels where the author radically changes the style even nowadays.
Last but not least, we have inherited a disfigured version of those epics. The originals sung by their authors are long gone. Thus the iterative divergence by the following generations of bards in terms of style and even in addition/deletion is inevitable.
1) either you have the habit, energy and time to systematically rewrite your code properly through iteration;
2) or you are so good that your average throwaway code is considered not that bad.
Because mostly either we are going through well known paths which leads to case 2) or we’re exploring new things and being “skilled & experienced developers” we manage to have the right habits, energy and time to build things iteratively ending up in case 1).
If in the end we still have trashy code, then we need to ask ourselves if we are lacking any of the following: skills, energy, time or good habits (or a proper context, but that’s a whole other universe of problems).
I never ask, few exceptions aside, any challenges from the developers I interview.
When hiring 40+ people for a neo-bank, I did what you should have experienced: listen to people and get to know them.
The key point of success in a team is of course their skill set, but also the potential synergy.
Lots of developers are very bad if not terrible at presenting themselves, be it on a résumé or during an interview. And this has no relation to their actual skills.
So I always try as hard as I can to actually extract information from them.
First, I let them feel at ease, telling them that this is not a challenge but a time to get to know each other (which is actually true).
Then I ask a lot of questions about their experience, both in the technical sense, but also human one.
I try as much as possible to understand how they think and feel, what do they value, aspire to, try to achieve by joining the company.
I’m not a hiring manager but a 15+ yrs of experience developer. Yet, I find that hiring developers by actually being one goes much smoother than when you’re not.
Last but not least, I think that this crazed interviews are becoming more and more common practice because developers agree to pass them.
If you want to change this, then don’t go through them. There are thousands of other great companies that do no torture their candidates.
Made me see the world, my life, my code and my desires, everything in a total different way.
It's like when you want to an apple then someone points out that a hole the worm's head can be seen out of it, or that actually the painting you're about to throw is masterpiece worth millions.
Gives light were it's all darkness.
It's really life changing, at least, it was for me.
But the man is very clear: https://kerkour.com/cloudflare-for-speed-and-security
> Estimated date of final publication: 2025 (soon ™)
If I'm not wrong, we're still in 2025 :)