I have spent a lot (many, many hours) of time on SO. SO has provided a great many answers, that I use every day. Is SO at bit hard on beginners? Actually it is. Is this a big problem? Not really. A bigger problem is that SO bans 'opinion' based questions. For example, a typical (banned) question might be 'what is the best IDE?'. Of course, that is a matter of opinion. However, I have learned a lot from reading people's opinions. SO is a big plus for the developer community and should be praised for it.
#1 book on Software: Code Complete by McConnel. #2 book on Software: Peopleware by DeMarco. #1 advice: your enemy is complexity not the humans around you. #2 advice: never stop having fun with code at least once a week. Main disclaimer: Everything I say may be wrong so be careful, maybe I'm a bot.
Likely this guy, solved more problems (small but important), than anyone else in this world. Think about it - ok, I am a software developper, but the number of times "Stack Overflow" made my projects "survive" and "save my ass" is extreme high. By the way - we really wrote good software after all.
By watching this video I now understand why I follow this channel and I read the comments, is some kind of futuristic intellectual community, this is the kind of place I feel more meaning.
Hey Lex I listen to podcasts in the time I can and consume to learn. Yours is now my favourite and I downloaded and blew through all of them. Because they don't need the visual piece, I learn so much while I commute to work or other places. Please keep them going I love them. Thumbs way way up 👆
47:01 "why are programmers kind of mean sometimes? well who do programmers work with all day long? so I have a theory that if you're at a job and you work with assholes all day long what do you eventually become? an asshole an asshole and what is the computer except the world's biggest asshole? because the computer has no time for your bullshit, the computer the minute you make a mistake everything goes crashing down right? one semicolon has crashed space missions right?"
"The hardest person to see on the planet is really yourself" That really reminds me of the idea of "headlessness": You look at yourself and what do you see? Look down you see your feet, your legs, your torso, your arms, but where your head should be you find the rest of the world instead.
This is the first time I have really found something interesting to watch on RU-vid. I watched the entire Deep learning for self driving cars series, now I am going to watch the entire AGI series. This is good work.
Really cool guy, totally different talk than all the others in the AGI series (part of because it wasn't about AI/AGI). I recently finished my studies, we also didn't learn anything about the source control (learned it during the studies though by myself) and that pretty much tells you that the education system is lagging big time. I also liked the moment where he said that spending too much time with the computer kinda makes you behave like a computer (concise/impatient/rude). Oh my, reminded me of Linus Torvalds haha. And I agree, In order to be effective long-term you sadly realize that you have to "stop programming" one day in the sense you go one level of abstraction up, into the realm of human language where you don't delegate tasks to modules/objects but to fellow humans. Refreshing, thanks a lot!
1:02:09 I wasn't taught source control during my engineering studies 2007 - 2011. Then again if I hadn't learned it on my own, it would've been taught to me immediately in my first internship. While I was surprised that source control wasn't taught, perhaps there's something to say about leaving certain things for the employers. I'll leave room for that argument but given that source control is such a central piece of the work and so easy to get started with, I can't understand why it wasn't taught.
B e a uuutiful. This stuff is so close to my heart. I'm relatively young, I only read his blog because of references and grew up with stack exchange. I'm now learning to appreciate the things he talked about (working with people and getting shit done, vision, etc) and he's articulating this half internalised stuff so well.
@LexFridman Awesome interview! Can you please interview Elon Musk on AGI if possible? I really want to know his detailed view on AGI- his ideology on this subject and how it compares with other's. Thanks in advance!
@@Belowzeroism I don't think anyone is an AGI expert today (it will be creepy it someone claims they are an expert in AGI). I'm not considering him to be an AGI expert. *But neglecting what he says, simply because he receives a lot of criticism from "experts", is a shame* (because no one knows anything about this). It is worth to know everyone's viewpoint on stuff that haven't been discovered yet. For someone like Elon Musk to say that AGI is possible, he must surely have some reason we aren't aware of (I don't care about his doomsday warnings. I just want to know about his ideas on AGI). What makes him think that AGI is possible in the first place? That's my question. Being a rational thinker who had worked with rocket science, he must surely have a valid reasoning. "Experts" by definition are competent at their fields, thus stagnate around their viewpoint. But when you talk about discovering something new, you may have to break some old rules.
i remember experts exchange.. it was very popular until they decided to charge to view a solution, at which point everyone went over to stackoverflow..........
Jeff would do a great actor (looks like Matt Damon). He has a great presence in front of the camera. Jokes apart, he is very interesting to listen to. I love the way he shares his passion. Thank you again Lex for preparing this interview and uploading.
Yes now that you said it, I can't unsee him in a detective movie. I could imagine lex being the detective, interogating him during an investigation, over a coffee.
@@coding-horror 😂 In all seriousness, if you listen to most tech people (I think this started with Marc Andreessen), they say 'right' in place of 'um.' In 99% of tech interviews, the person tacks an inessential 'right' onto the end of every other sentence 😅 If you don't believe me, start at @8:27 and watch until 9:17. You say 'right' unnecessarily 6 times in that 50 seconds (and once materially, as well---which i don't count---i.e. 'right vs wrong'). But thank you all the same for replying with humor (:
This guest is disappointing. Its a new low compared to the other guests. The reason is he is not really a good programmer, hates C language, thinks every one should be identifiable on the internet among his low tech skills.
