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Questions and answers session from January, 2021.
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[@0:00:00] Intro[@0:01:23] Approach to learning a new code base?[@0:04:40] What’s your experience at AWS?[@0:07:07] Internet goes away (skip ahead)[@0:08:54] Quality of first open-source contribution[@0:12:34] How many hours do you spend coding each day?[@0:14:37] Go vs Rust in web development[@0:16:54] Promising areas of Computer Science[@0:21:52] What do you miss about Norway?[@0:24:11] Any advice on how to take notes?[@0:26:43] What are you doing at AWS? How’s it going?[@0:30:10] Intermediate project ideas in Rust?[@0:31:47] Will WebAssembly replace JavaScript?[@0:32:52] How is life at AWS?[@0:34:03] What’s your process for building knowledge?[@0:35:05] Crate you wish was available, but isn’t?[@0:36:12] Are UML/activity diagrams used in practice?[@0:38:36] How are you?[@0:41:35] Advice for technical interviews?[@0:45:08] Will you work on the Rust compiler?[@0:47:01] How do you retain knowledge?[@0:50:03] Thoughts on windows-rs?[@0:51:00] async-std, smol, or tokio?[@0:55:19] Why did you leave academia?[@0:58:40] Will Rust replace low-level languages?[@1:01:25] Virtual on-boarding at AWS[@1:04:12] How do you get a good job in industry?[@1:05:41] How do you prioritize open-source projects?[@1:10:13] NonNull vs Unique[@1:15:23] Show us your cat![@1:16:35] Do you enjoy mathematics?[@1:19:51] Rust GUI programming[@1:20:33] Working with Niko and Felix at AWS[@1:21:31] Are you still working on Noria?[@1:22:30] Rust gcc compiler[@1:23:41] How do you learn to write an OS in Rust?[@1:25:35] Packaging Rust libraries in distros[@1:28:05] Should I watch on YouTube or Twitch?[@1:28:51] One non-fiction book suggestion?[@1:29:45] How does it feel to have more money now?[@1:31:45] Clean backend architecture in Rust?[@1:32:33] Rust in embedded software?[@1:33:55] Rust and the blockchain[@1:35:28] Other programming languages?[@1:38:20] Crust of Rust on debugging?[@1:40:08] What’s Rust at Amazon like?[@1:40:48] Interviewing at Amazon[@1:42:15] How do I learn to contribute to Servo?[@1:43:47] Remote work at AWS[@1:44:25] Picking a Computer Science field[@1:45:49] Stream where you review subscriber code?[@1:47:20] How do you stay productive and focused?[@1:49:22] Any plans for 2021?[@1:50:50] Learning Rust in a country with no Rust?[@1:52:25] Will Rust replace Go in the cloud?[@1:55:32] Value of PhD vs industry experience?[@1:59:32] Do you plan to go back to academia?[@2:00:25] Better to take notes in a text editor?[@2:02:14] Why vim over an IDE?[@2:06:47] Language for the Bash-Rust gap?[@2:07:41] actix-web, warp, or rocket?[@2:09:40] Peer-to-peer based Web 3.0?[@2:12:29] Thoughts on the new president?[@2:14:56] Is currying practical in Rust?[@2:16:47] New Missing Semester lectures this year?[@2:18:01] What is your ideal question?[@2:20:30] Have you written malware?[@2:21:21] Any tips on reading Rust library docs?[@2:24:24] What’s your favorite dinosaur?[@2:25:08] Have you looked at WASM?[@2:25:55] What do you do in your free time?[@2:28:00] What’s the trajectory of Rust?[@2:31:35] What’s missing from Rust education?[@2:35:15] Do you have a pre-coding/streaming routine?[@2:36:30] Are you a coffee person?[@2:37:10] How was the move?[@2:38:31] How do I learn distributed systems?[@2:39:15] Have you heard about Zig?[@2:41:08] Can you improve things at AWS?[@2:42:42] Coming to Rust from a GC language?[@2:44:50] Resources for system design in Rust?[@2:46:42] Getting hired as a junior engineer at AWS?[@2:48:14] What’s your cat doing?[@2:50:23] How hard was passing a FAANG interview?[@2:53:50] Are “elite” universities worth it?[@2:56:33] Can you make beginner-friendly streams?[@2:58:52] Pause to vote on questions[@3:01:33] What chair do you have?[@3:02:36] Can you do an FFI stream?[@3:04:22] HKTs and Monads in Rust?[@3:06:25] Would you recommend Rust for API backends?[@3:07:35] Mocking in Rust?[@3:09:05] Coming from Typescript to Rust[@3:13:10] Read the nomicon after the book?[@3:16:25] 10 (9) quick-fire questions
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