With a little homework you could have easily figured out the poster is not a native English speaker and thus spared making yourself look like a bit of an ass.
Isn't that even more reason to check it for correctness? I know when I write in German I do at least two proof readings before I send it out into the wild, preferably after checking with a native speaker.
Checking with a native speaker is not something everyone has access to on an every-moment basis. Without that, if you're a non-native speaker, how can you tell that something you don't know is incorrect is incorrect?
It's just a link title with an extra s and 'are' instead of 'is'. Not a big f'ing deal.
Interesting to see the see-saw of downvotes from people who agreed with me, to people who apparently agree more with you though.
I happily accept the mad flourishes of Robert Martin. They fortify his arguments and help engage the audience. Good education has an element of entertainment and emotion. It's a part of how we learn, or at least, how we learn best.
The presentation is dynamic and flamboyant, but the content is unoriginal and uninspired.
Summary: Hardware's progressed O(10^25); software, no where near as much. Software's just been sequence, selection, and iteration in various guises. Moore's law is ending; clock-speeds, slowing; multi-core, coming. Functional programming will help.
Check it out if you're interested in a fun talk about programming and history of languages. The intended audience, despite being at a Rails Conference, seemed to be programmers who've not ventured far from the popular languages of the day. Anyone else will likely be disappointed, waiting for a new message that's never delivered.
Sure. Trivially true. I meant to overloaded O() to mean "order of magnitude" when used for a constant factor, but you're right that in computational complexity's big O notation, O(k) = O(1) for all constants k.
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It's just a link title with an extra s and 'are' instead of 'is'. Not a big f'ing deal.
Interesting to see the see-saw of downvotes from people who agreed with me, to people who apparently agree more with you though.
Honestly, I found him to be an amazing speaker.
I did not find any "fluff", just a wide viewpoint.
I really liked him on the stack overflow podcast though.
Summary: Hardware's progressed O(10^25); software, no where near as much. Software's just been sequence, selection, and iteration in various guises. Moore's law is ending; clock-speeds, slowing; multi-core, coming. Functional programming will help.
Check it out if you're interested in a fun talk about programming and history of languages. The intended audience, despite being at a Rails Conference, seemed to be programmers who've not ventured far from the popular languages of the day. Anyone else will likely be disappointed, waiting for a new message that's never delivered.
Summary: Hardware's progressed linearly; software, no where near as much.