Electronic Engineering helps, Assembly helps, so does C. But it's the application which satisfy our goals makes us programmers. We shouldn't forget our goals, or, we'll be lost in programming.
Time is our perception of the chain of causality. If event A caused or _could_ have caused B, according to the speed limit of causality, commonly known as the “speed of light,” then we say that A came before B (think of you being born and you now.) All possible frames of reference (meaning observers being in various places and moving at various speeds, as well as being immersed in various gravity fields) will agree on this fact that A came before B, although they will vary in the specific time they measure between A and B. This happens when the two events were separated more in time than in space, that is, had more time between them than space (with space measured in light time units: light-years, light-seconds, so that you can compare time with space.) The specific time an observer measures between A and B will depend on how much space did light (or any other form of causality, such as gears moving in a mechanical clock) have to travel to “catch up” with the motion of the observer herself. (This part is easy to explain with a diagram.) OTOH, when events C and D are more separated in space than in time, so that “light” (actually causality) could never make it in time between one and the other, then they _happened independently_ of one another. In this case there _do_ exist frames of reference where C seemed to happen before D, at the same time as D, as well as after D. Think of two very distant supernovae exploding. We may see C going kaboom before D, but an alien on the other side of the universe may see D giving it up before C. This is but a tiny part of Einstein's Relativity and I don't claim to understand half of it! I highly recommend watching the PBS SpaceTime TH-cam channel, they do a terrific job explaining this stuff!
NPM is indeed the largest package manager in the world by sheer numbers, but its an ocean of modules that do fuck all and there is no cohesion to any of it and its an utter mess that shows no sign of improving. Cull it all and start over.
Amazing talk ! This talk address the very concern that was bothering me for days now!
Great talk, I don't agree in all that she said, but I really liked the pace of it. Very clear and concise.
Electronic Engineering helps, Assembly helps, so does C. But it's the application which satisfy our goals makes us programmers. We shouldn't forget our goals, or, we'll be lost in programming.
Time is our perception of entropy of matter. If nothing changed, there would be no perception of time.
Awesome talk.
Time is our perception of the chain of causality.
If event A caused or _could_ have caused B, according to the speed limit of causality, commonly known as the “speed of light,” then we say that A came before B (think of you being born and you now.)
All possible frames of reference (meaning observers being in various places and moving at various speeds, as well as being immersed in various gravity fields) will agree on this fact that A came before B, although they will vary in the specific time they measure between A and B.
This happens when the two events were separated more in time than in space, that is, had more time between them than space (with space measured in light time units: light-years, light-seconds, so that you can compare time with space.)
The specific time an observer measures between A and B will depend on how much space did light (or any other form of causality, such as gears moving in a mechanical clock) have to travel to “catch up” with the motion of the observer herself. (This part is easy to explain with a diagram.)
OTOH, when events C and D are more separated in space than in time, so that “light” (actually causality) could never make it in time between one and the other, then they _happened independently_ of one another.
In this case there _do_ exist frames of reference where C seemed to happen before D, at the same time as D, as well as after D. Think of two very distant supernovae exploding. We may see C going kaboom before D, but an alien on the other side of the universe may see D giving it up before C.
This is but a tiny part of Einstein's Relativity and I don't claim to understand half of it! I highly recommend watching the PBS SpaceTime TH-cam channel, they do a terrific job explaining this stuff!
wonderful talk
thank you!
Amazing talk!
NPM is indeed the largest package manager in the world by sheer numbers, but its an ocean of modules that do fuck all and there is no cohesion to any of it and its an utter mess that shows no sign of improving. Cull it all and start over.