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Hacker and physicist – a tale of "common sense"
Why fundamental digital principles are as invisible (and essential) as the laws of physics.
Not because I code with rocks and sticks, but because my toolkit is filled with ancient relics like LISP and OCaml - functional programming languages that are about as popular in today's enterprise world as flip phones at a tech conference. Any physics student knows the answer: According to General Relativity, time moves faster in weaker gravitational fields (satellites are farther from Earth's gravity). When I tell developers that HTTPS requires certificates, that data needs encryption at rest, that services should use mutual authentication - I get the same response: "I'm just a code monkey moving business logic around.
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