A particularly salty developer I knew ages and ages ago once said (apocryphally, apparently) that there was an old Inuit proverb, “everyone likes the smell of their own farts.”
Google is still taking themselves very seriously while everyone else is starting to get bored.
The problem with being 25 is that you have about 8 years ahead of you before you figure out how full of shit everyone is in their twenties, and maybe another 8 before you figure out that everyone is full of shit and stop worrying quite so much about it.
>The problem with being 25 is that you have about 8 years ahead of you before you figure out how full of shit everyone is in their twenties, and maybe another 8 before you figure out that everyone is full of shit and stop worrying quite so much about it.
Boy there is some truth right here. It wasn't until long after I graduated undergrad that I realized just how much bullshit is out there. Even in the science world! When I started actually reading the methodology of studies with impressive sounding conclusions, I realized that easily 30-60% were just garbage. The specific journal really, really matters. I'd say 90% of science journalism targeting laymen is just absolute bullshit.
I started actually chasing down wikipedia citations and OMG they are bad!! Half are broken links, a large fraction don't support the conclusions they're being used for, and a massive fraction are really dubious sources.
I realized that so many people I respected are so full of shit.
I realized that so many of MY OWN OPINIONS were bullshit. And they STILL are. I hold so few opinions that are genuinely well-reasoned and substantiated. They are so shallow.
Yet, this is just how the world works. Human intuition is a hell of a drug. A lot of the people I respect tend to be right, but for all the wrong reasons. It's SOOOO rare to find people that can REALLY back up their thinking on something.
Steve Jobs had a slightly more optimistic way to say it: “ Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you.”
Tight integration with the language may be beneficial in making it simpler to write, but its not like you can't do this already in other languages. Baking it into the language might be useful to make it more popular. Nobody should be doing the chain rule by hand in the 21st century.
Google is still taking themselves very seriously while everyone else is starting to get bored.
The problem with being 25 is that you have about 8 years ahead of you before you figure out how full of shit everyone is in their twenties, and maybe another 8 before you figure out that everyone is full of shit and stop worrying quite so much about it.