Your history is a little mixed up there. The original author of Turbo Pascal, and Chief Architect of Delphi, became the Lead Architect of C#. It’s not like Microsoft came out of nowhere and ate Borland’s lunch.
Given the audience of the magazine in question, writing the headline to focus on how young he is (which tells us nothing in relation to quantum computing) instead of the fact that this is a grad student (which DOES tell us something: it gives readers a frame of reference in terms of this person's academic knowledge and skillsets) is disappointing at best, and clickbait at worst.
You would want at least a mountain on (or "behind" instead of "on", with its tip sticking out) the horizon as well. You could see a distant 6km high mountain from another 6km high mountain much farther, than flat horizon from an 8km high mountain (mt Everest)
Agreed. I remember being in my early 20s, watching my more experienced colleagues, and realizing this. I had had a different (incorrect) mental model: I had thought intellect was as good as experience, so Ability = Intellect + Experience. I was wrong.
It seems absurd that an article claims to disprove a hypothesis linking structure to communication patterns without even the slightest mention of trying to observe those patterns. But they go even further: they claim to have determined the direction of causality between two variables without even having measured one of them!
Huh? That's funny--I would have said the opposite. It was from watching Obama's speeches that I learned that silent pauses can be much less annoying than "umms". If you want to see someone using a lot of "umms", watch Justin Trudeau.
It doesn't take long to get used to that style. It took me maybe three weeks of playing with Java 8 streams in my spare time before I got quite comfortable with it.
