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It's a little strange to me that otherwise experienced people feel the need to "study" for Google interviews.

To me, this seems less like they're selecting for good engineers and more like they're just selecting for people who really want Google on their resume.

Also the point the commenter thinks they're original in making is the main point of the actual article.

The article goes on to mention that it likely developed gradually over several generations. The first kids with the mutation would have never been taught recursive language by adults. Instead, they probably developed some semblance of it from speaking with siblings/cousins their age. While this would be pretty weak, it probably gave them enough of an advantage over others.

Once they themselves had kids they would be able to teach them their imperfect version of recursive language. This probably continued and amplified over generations.

It's a pretty interesting case of nature and nurture combining. The mutation is a prerequisite, but largely useless unless there's enough "nurture" happening during the critical period.

I think they're talking about your machine's memory, not human memory.

He does measure the ambient temperature in the article. Happens around 60 degrees Fahrenheit, so well over freezing.

Shareholders care what the company they have invested in spends its money on.

Most people do not have the resources to lobby for that sort of tax system. Amazon, and other corporations, do.

It seems that every few years a new backend language comes to the forefront and becomes a popular for greenfield projects or rewrites. First people moved from PHP to Ruby, then Node, and now Go.

Of course, Go's popularity is helped a great deal by Google using it, as well as the huge amount of devops software written in Go (docker, terraform, kubernetes). But at some point the hype for those will settle and they'll just become more tools. At the same time there'll be more and more legacy Go projects at various companies that won't be very exciting. Around about this time we'll probably see the next language start rising in popularity.

Isn't the code on GitHub?

It was almost life-changing when I figured out how to do that on both my work Macbook and my home Linux machine. As another evil mode user I second what you said

I wish I could take a class on early film history. It's fascinating to see how people figured out all these techniques, tricks, rules, and conventions in the first few decades of movie-making. It's simply incredible how quickly it developed as an art form so quickly.