Computer Science - A Guide for the Perplexed • Joe Armstrong • GOTO 2018 

What a great sense of humor, what a great mind, what a great speaker. The world lost a great one. RIP professor, you shall not be forgotten.

RIP Joe Armstrong

you not only need to restart your cable modem, you also need to restart your Dreamliner aircraft every 248 days as it turned out recently, to avoid an integer overflow.

Absolutely brilliant talk! The world misses people like Joe Armstrong!

Charles Moore has also made a programming language, operating system, and multi-core chips. His software has run on Mars! But he doesn't write books.

Hardware doesn't become faster anymore, so we have to switch languages again to take advantage of distributed and concurrent execution.

RIP Joe Armstrong...you will be missed...

Any one ELSE walking like he did would made me crazy. Not Joe... RIP Joe, you are missed.

A true gentleman who has made the world a better place. Everyone should Joes thesis, I think we are obligated.

Computer science is not about computers, and nor about science

"I never understand code when I read it, and when I do I want to rewrite it"

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The computer revolution has not happened yet - Alan Kay

Great presentation. Thanx

I'd add interpersonal communication to the list, even though he did mention it implicitly. Sad to hear about his passing... love his work.

YAY... I've been saying "C.S. is not a science" for a good few years now... nice to hear someone with far more knowledge and kudos agreeing with me. :)

this choosing problem is very relevant. in 1995 nobody in CS had to do that. now, since many teachers have 20 years of experience, they somehow still cannot do that and thus very difficult for students, that often pushed 100+ list of things in courses and same problem: "what is the most important thing? - I dont know". also in other fields in university, since explosion of information and many things have been there also(computers helped create more research and literature in all kinds of fields, previously eg. sociology experiment data had to be on paper managed so this made it expensive and slow, which helped keep information and material very limited).

A must listen for someone starting in this field and something I wish I was adviced when I was starting. Over the years working in the field I've come to same conclusions on lot of topics that he addressed here.

Fantastic talk

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