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Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by sneed_chucker »

Looking forward to listening to all of this.

Regardless of you feelings towards him or the company he works for, Cutler has been a very influential software engineer through his work on OpenVMS and Windows NT, and I don't think he's talked about as much as the Bell Labs gang, Stallman, Linus, Stroustrup, and so on.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by mrweasel »

The interviewer, Dave Plummer, is also is also an amazingly interesting person in his own right. I particularly enjoyed his retro-coding videos, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlZe2JwrJqM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0zxIfJJLAY

The videos are really interesting and his background muzak and RGB lighting puts me in a Christmas mood. He generally put Microsoft in a completely different light than I'm used to, he speaks warmly about his job, co-workers and Microsoft, while acknowledging much of the weirdness going on in Redmond.

Only problem is that watching is channel will trigger something in the YouTube algorithm and flood your feed with videos on ADHD. Presumably it has to do with his videos on autism and ADHD, but I feel like YouTube should be smart enough to notice that I didn't watch to videos, only those on coding and Microsoft history.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by smolder »

fortran77 wrote: post #5
huseyinkeles wrote: post #3

Irrelevant link. People just upvoted this to the homepage without checking the video?

> People just upvoted this to the homepage without checking the video? I have news for you! People here comment on articles they didn't read. All the time.

Reading the article is pure folly! They'll steal your IP address, inject silly JavaScript into your hypertext markup interpreter, render their text in unpleasing typefaces and suboptimal contrast, hold you ransom with cookie popups or paywalls... One must protect oneself. The only way to safely interact with the world wide web (called "web" because it's a trap like a spider web!) is to gleen what you can 2nd hand, from the hackernews comments.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by justin66 »

mrweasel wrote: post #7

The interviewer, Dave Plummer, is also is also an amazingly interesting person in his own right. I particularly enjoyed his retro-coding videos, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlZe2JwrJqM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0zxIfJJLAY The videos are really interesting and his background muzak and RGB lighting puts me in a Christmas mood. He generally put Microsoft in a completely different light than I'm us…

YouTube recommendations have always been pretty awful, incentivizing people to avoid exploring videos on controversial topics once they learn that if they do so, they’ll be inundated with garbage on that topic.

The recent forcing of people (including me) to turn off their ad blockers was an eye opener. Holy crap, YouTube ads are hot garbage, and it’s embarrassing to think that any humans respond to them. YouTube has abandoned any pretense of offering a good user experience.

Worth digging around in the muck a little to watch something as great as this Dave Cutler interview, though.

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