alt Hacker NewsPersonally I'm quite sure this is super interesting, but I don't really have 3 hours to listen to this, even 1.5h at 2x speed is too much.
I would very much prefer something written down, so I could absorb this at my own pace. I know, gift horse, but still.
Replies
Maybe go for a long drive? Long walk? Whatever floats your boat.
I used to do manual labor and I would work my way through like eight hours of audiobooks per day.
It is quite long, but I thought it was worth it if you can find the time. Short of that I think just reading the Knuth article the quote is from might bring similar insights.
It's worth the listen if you're even mildly interested in the history of computer science. He's a great presenter. I guess at some point you do have to prioritize how to spend your time, though.
Audio transcription has been around for a while, you could solve this problem for yourself quite easily.
If you want a spoilery TLDR: It's more about the journey. He tracks down the origin, finds the support, finds the support flawed, and leaves you to your own conclusion rather than make a new flawed one.
The basic idea is that the origin assumes a highly critical inner hot loop, don't assume where it is, and optimize there.
There's some other time spent saying this justifies slower abstractions for maintainability elsewhere.
Thanks to modern playback technology, you can pause it and resume play later at your convenience.