Our fantasy programming language features.

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Andy recently wrote that product quality is proportional to attention and code quality is inversely proportional to pressure. Is he right?

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Macros: are they a superpower, a necessary evil, or a mistake?

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How deep should you go with your understanding of systems?

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Does language choice actually matter?

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With an increase in the number of security bugs being disclosed irresponsibly, we dig into how the process should work, the differences between normal bugs and security bugs, the complexities of coordinating patches, the human issues involved, and more.

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The bit of code we admire most and why. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break.

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We get into the process of working on and with formal protocol specifications, something Andy is familiar with from his work on Matrix.

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What makes a good library?

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Andy has been taking the One Billion Row Challenge, and has been thinking about the broader question of what makes software fast.

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