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French-Owen: Systems fundamentals like HTTP and databases remain essential in CS
“Personally, I think still understanding systems is very important and just having some conception of, like, how, like, Git works, you know, or, like, HTTP, or databases, like, queues, like, all of these different systems. I think that those fundamentals are st…”
Sean Wang: Bot verification cannot be solved at HTTP rendering level
“I'm not sure it can be solved. I think you've always been able to spoof you know, user agents. You always been able to spoof IPs or whatever, right? Like they just, it just cannot be solved on the rendering level unless you want to change how HTTP works.”
Evans: Crypto resembles early 1990s internet before foundational protocols existed
“Whereas it seems to me the kind of creative energy around crypto was sort of, like, it was more like the creative energy of the internet in, like, the late eighties and early nineties.
In that there was no HTTP.
There was no SSL.
There was no SMTP.
Yes, there …”
Evans: Internet interoperability exists only at low infrastructure layers, not applications
“And the thing about, talking about this with the internet, like the internet is completely interoperable, At the lower levels of the stack with IP and HTTP and SSL and so on. But once you're in the browser, like if you're building Amazon, you don't need to wor…”