The downfall of David Hoffman:
- builds Bankless into one of the biggest crypto podcasts
- spends years telling people Ethereum is the future
- becomes one of the biggest $ETH supporters on crypto Twitter
- launches a VC fund while also running a media company
- people start questioning if promoted projects are connected to investments
The BanklessDAO drama starts:
- DAO asks for huge token grants using the Bankless name
- backlash gets so bad Bankless separates itself from the DAO
- then reports appear about quiet layoffs within the company.
- then the biggest twist happens
- After years of being extremely bullish on Ethereum.
- David says he sold all his ETH
- Who cares
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Bjarne Stroustrup is the creator of C++ and a former researcher at Bell Labs at its peak. I interviewed him about:
• What made Bell Labs different
• Programming language design: types, memory safety, bootstrapping
• When abstraction improves performance
• Anecdotes from building C++
• Thoughts on AI writing C++
• Mistakes he'd change while building C++
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - The origin of C++
8:46 - What Bell Labs was like
17:24 - Dennis Ritchie
24:00 - When to build a programming language
31:59 - Bootstrapping a language
33:58 - C++ is not object-oriented
37:32 - Discussing type systems
46:20 - Memory safety
49:26 - Standards committee anecdotes
1:09:40 - Adding automatic garbage collection to C++
1:18:25 - Template instantiation is Turing complete
1:21:57 - Abstraction and performance
1:28:51 - AI writing code
1:35:54 - His motivation
1:39:18 - Famous quotes
1:46:48 - Reflecting on building C++
1:49:12 - Top C++ book recommendation
1:50:59 - Advice for his younger self
1:58:06 - Outro
Appreciate it when the AI doomer crowd occasionally lets the mask slip a little (Allen is a co-founder of the anti-AI group Humans First and frequent guest on conservative podcasts pushing, uh, Unabomber messaging)
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