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Bob's Railsconf 2010 talk, "Twenty-Five Zeros", is also worth a watch if you enjoyed this post of his.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mslMLp5bQD0

⬐ pwpwp

Could you please take the time to go over your title before you post, or read it after you posted it, and make sure it's grammatically correct?

Thanks.

⬐ Qz

With a little homework you could have easily figured out the poster is not a native English speaker and thus spared making yourself look like a bit of an ass.

⬐ zygen

Isn't that even more reason to check it for correctness? I know when I write in German I do at least two proof readings before I send it out into the wild, preferably after checking with a native speaker.

⬐ Qz

Checking with a native speaker is not something everyone has access to on an every-moment basis. Without that, if you're a non-native speaker, how can you tell that something you don't know is incorrect is incorrect?

It's just a link title with an extra s and 'are' instead of 'is'. Not a big f'ing deal.

Interesting to see the see-saw of downvotes from people who agreed with me, to people who apparently agree more with you though.

⬐ jshen

I have a hard time watching his talks. Too much fluff around the substance.

⬐ joe_the_user

I'd never heard Martin talk.

Honestly, I found him to be an amazing speaker.

I did not find any "fluff", just a wide viewpoint.

⬐ jshen

yeah, a lot of people like his talks. Something about his style is abrasive to me.

I really liked him on the stack overflow podcast though.

⬐ nodogbite

He seems just a little too full of himself. One of those people who gets too much pleasure from hearing words come out of his own mouth.

⬐ jeberle

I happily accept the mad flourishes of Robert Martin. They fortify his arguments and help engage the audience. Good education has an element of entertainment and emotion. It's a part of how we learn, or at least, how we learn best.

⬐ kjhughes

The presentation is dynamic and flamboyant, but the content is unoriginal and uninspired.

Summary: Hardware's progressed O(10^25); software, no where near as much. Software's just been sequence, selection, and iteration in various guises. Moore's law is ending; clock-speeds, slowing; multi-core, coming. Functional programming will help.

Check it out if you're interested in a fun talk about programming and history of languages. The intended audience, despite being at a Rails Conference, seemed to be programmers who've not ventured far from the popular languages of the day. Anyone else will likely be disappointed, waiting for a new message that's never delivered.

⬐ teaspoon

O(10^25) = O(1)

⬐ dkersten

Substituting that in...

Summary: Hardware's progressed linearly; software, no where near as much.

⬐ jonsen

If you consider speed and storage as orthogonal dimensions it would be quadratic.

⬐ dkersten

Well, I just rewrote what grandparent said, subbing in that O(10^25) is linear.

⬐ jshen

hehe, a lesson for the kids, all constants scale the same.

⬐ kjhughes

Sure. Trivially true. I meant to overloaded O() to mean "order of magnitude" when used for a constant factor, but you're right that in computational complexity's big O notation, O(k) = O(1) for all constants k.