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Mentions personal use of Emacs. Likes Lisp.

20 Aug 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #440 – Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

“Yeah, I don’t know if it’s peer pressure, but I used Emacs for many, many years and I love Lisp, so a lot of the customization is done in Lisp.”

— Lex Fridman

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Lex Fridman
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20 Aug 2024
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Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Dude, it was so good. You would install windows and then after three or six months, it would start breaking and everything gets slow. Then you would restart, go to DOS, format C, you would delete your hard drive and then install the Windows 95 again. It was so good times. And you would design everything. Now, I’m going to install it properly. Now, I’m going to design my desktop properly. Yeah, I don’t know if it’s peer pressure, but I used Emacs for many, many years and I love Lisp, so a lot of the customization is done in Lisp. It’s a programming language. Partially, it was peer pressure, but part of it is realizing you need to keep learning stuff. The same issue with jQuery. I still think I need to learn NodeJS for example, even though that’s not my main thing or even close to the main thing. But I feel like you need to keep learning this stuff. And even if you don’t choose to use it long term, you need to give it a chance. So, your understanding of the world expands. Yeah, you want to understand the new technological concepts and see if they can benefit you. It would be stupid not to even try it.…

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