20+ Years in Tech: Things We Wish We Knew Sooner
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Conversation claims that putting ideas out freely accelerates adoption, shows concrete tech lessons: uses Advent of Code to compare languages, predicts generics in Go and concise comprehensions, highlights Erlang/OTP’s runtime power with 24 live upgrades, zero downtime at the Copenhagen exchange and deep OTP observability for live patching, describes actor-model benefits for locality and parallelism, cites an India 4G mast rollout that became a massive network, and imagines HUD contact lenses and local energy harvesting powering pervasive devices.
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- 0:00Intro
- 1:3520 years in Tech
- 5:39Programming languages
- 19:38Erlang
- 25:55Tech in 20 years time
- 31:56Telecoms
- 35:50Q&A
- 40:15Outro
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