After 20 minutes spent complaining that nobody listens to him, several minutes of diversion to come to the point that people are not rational because they favour world view and moral sense (characteristics that he calls 'emotional') compared to self-interest, and that he finds that dismaying.
Well, I am dismayed that one may consider prioritising selfishness and immediate interest as rational and prioritising global thinking as emotional, and not the opposite. And that is supposed to serve as an anchor to the following points. Well...
Now at 30 minutes and the subject of the talk was barely tackled. I am not sure I have the strength to inflict myself the remaining hour.
It seems like the minutia and subtlety of many c++ features at the cost of simplicity and readability lend themselves to cocky, in-love-with-themselves developers like this guy (who tells us upfront he wasn't actually building anything embedded in c++?!).
Well, I am dismayed that one may consider prioritising selfishness and immediate interest as rational and prioritising global thinking as emotional, and not the opposite. And that is supposed to serve as an anchor to the following points. Well...
Now at 30 minutes and the subject of the talk was barely tackled. I am not sure I have the strength to inflict myself the remaining hour.