This transcript - is mostly as is - edited lightly from the discussion on hiring for Rust which was held at the conference on 2nd November 2022. As per Chatham House Rules, names have not been mentioned in this transcript to prevent attribution of quotes to persons. more

(Neo)Vi(m) has to be the best text editor to have ever come in-built into any OS. But it’s not exactly loved, all because it’s different from others. What makes me love it then? more

The future is automated, and automation means more robots will qualify Captcha tests 😬, anyways they might not get as intelligent as us to read context from the APIs of now. While facebook might use their data crunchers to understand the varied data passed via APIs, most of our innocent bots will need to be given dictionaries to interpret the data they recieve, this vocabulary is exactly what the… more