We are computer scientists, we are slaves who works for the… - Joe Armstrong

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We are computer scientists, we are slaves who works for these big companies [Google, Facebook].

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Joseph Leslie Armstrong (27 December 1950 – 20 April 2019) was a computer scientist working in the area of fault-tolerant distributed systems.

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Defensive programming in C, is only necessary because you have only have a single thread of computation. If you have a sequential language and it crashes, you lost everything.

This [showing his smartphone] is about a million time more powerful than the computer but the computer was developed on.

People keep telling me this, "you’ve got to upgrade your operating system". Then they say, "Well, that’s because of security things." I don’t really have much confidence in them. If they said we have to change it once every 20 years, I could believe that it was reliable, but telling me that I have to change it once every six weeks is crazy.

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