So many stories and so much advice from Dave Plummer - the original creator of task manager and other interesting software like unzip on Microsoft Windows. Did the NSA have a backdoor in Microsoft Windows? Should you learn Rust or GoLang? Learn from someone who has years of development experience!

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Windows Clock:

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Windows Start Menu:

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Windows Zip Folders;

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Windows Activation:

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// Menu //

00:00 - Coming up

01:01 - Dave Plummer's history

02:26 - Dave's Garage

03:33 - How Dave started at MicroSoft

06:15 - Task Manager

10:36 - Other Operating Systems

11:06 - What OS is Dave coding on?

11:30 - How Dave got into coding

13:14 - Advice to younger people

14:18 - Sell your work, not yourself

15:38 - Still coding long after Microsoft

16:22 - Visual Zip

18:40 - Show your work

19:31 - Was it easier in the old days?

21:07 - Would you use Rust today?

21:43 - Should I learn C?

22:10 - What language is Windows written in?

23:14 - ZIG and other programming languages

25:05 - Start with Python

26:32 - Write your code right

27:00 - Windows 95 vs NT

30:00 - 20-year-old code still in Windows

30:47 - Task manager is still the same

31:11 - Politics between Win 95 and NT team

31:48 - Product Activation

33:42 - Loved for task manager; hated for Windows activation

35:05- Open Source

36:00 - Who is looking at your code?

37:15 - NSA and backdoor access to Windows

38:07 - Sneaking code into Windows

38:53 - Windows Easter eggs

39:54 - Doom on Excel

40:17 - Secret messages in MS DOS

40:46 - Pinball

43:49 - The Start menu

45:08 - Calculator and Clock

47:58 - Blue screen of death

48:59 - Chat GPT

51:01 - Chat GPT and bad code

51:30 - Plans with your channel

52:27 - Meeting Dave in person

52:45 - Outro

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