kbrtalan

just the opposite. She put her money where her mouth was and didn't trade her dignity for some cash

Most importantly, code something in c++! Being "book-smart" with nothing to show for it is pretty much useless. A simple Snake or Tetris clone in SDL is a super rewarding first project, or you could give Advent of Code a go as it lets you solve a lot of cool puzzles that fit in a couple of hours at worst. As for books, I can recommend Effective Modern C++ by Scott Meyers. CppCast is a great podcast that can get you up to speed on the C++ ecosystem.

> Roblox first launched in 2006, a full fifteen years ago – that's five years before Minecraft

So if Notch pitched the author Minecraft the answer would have been to abandon the project? This puts a huge dent in the credibility of the article

Stephen Wolfram, is that you?

There’s a whole book about this idea, Antifragile by Nassim Taleb, highly recommended

Why exactly? Current mainstream programming languages have just started to move away from the “fancy C” paradigm (only named functions, classes, imperative control flow constructs) to “prototype ML” paradigm (lambda functions, records, user-defined operators). These features make languages way more expressive (enabling things like SwiftUI), so understanding language nuances will become even more important as more advanced language features find their way into popular languages. Obviously you do not need to be a an expert on compilers, but most powerful languages need some time investment in order to be used at their fullest potential.

> Today, I know everything can collapse really fast. The real takeaway from the story

Such a great piece of Steve Jobs fanfiction

Sic transit, Gloria!

Imma crawl the shit out of this