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Do you mean something like defense or banking?


This looks like the „compagnon du devoir et du tour de France“ in France.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compagnons_du_Devoir

They learn the basics and then they make a tour of France to refine their skills. They are required to move at least every six months.

I know a couple of them from my family and this looks impressive. If this existed for software engineering, this would be the best training.


Do you mean they would work like that to prevent an alternative implementation? This seems a bit far fetched.


Who says that? I think it’s only a question from the commenter above.


It's the thesis of Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature. It's not an uncommon sentiment. Maybe we run in different circles.


Did he say that? It’s not in the original interview: https://dallasinnovates.com/exclusive-qa-john-carmacks-diffe...


Is it in Europe? I feel people would like it if you tell that you like what you do.


No, the midwest.


„Single threaded“ IS the work load, right? I‘m confused.


Different types of single threaded work stress different parts of the Core. Some might be throughput heavy, some might require a lot of cache, ...


Looking at the lane problem, wouldn‘t an adjusted, less ambiguous road marking solve some of the self driving car issues?


It’s a bit like the empty set that is a subset of any other set.


Maybe some constants or enums to give names to specific numbers.

let CENTERED = 0; let JUSTIFIED = 1;


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