Most of these answers make me think FAANG staff are a bit omnipresent on HN nowadays. You know he, standing on Vert's shoulders, invented the flipping WWW right? You know better and are trying to do what about it exactly?? Oh yeah, make money.
My fault for not pointing out the irony more explicitly. VW is reportedly paying $15bn+ for cheating on emissions. If they had said they are axing all of their diesel vehicles and replacing them with electric I would be jumping for joy. They basically chose to take the smallest pain point for the largest reward by touting these credentials. Having actually built F1 cars you should think of them as aeroplanes that never take off. All of the top racing is aero dependant more than anything nowadays.
Agree. Big meh in the sport. Eco considerations aside it's amusing that they're using this as a platform. Racing is largely not about the powertrain. And emissions are... whoops we made them up.
The guys who were originally going to do the interview were in the room. Squirming. I asked if his background was APL (you know array based stuff) and was told that APL, and I shit you not, 'was not A Programming Language'.
A bit sideways from topic but; I got grilled by the head of the Euro fighter project (Ford management) on the importance of using arrays for everything. Don't do 'int a;' always create an array. I was dismissed half way through for not agreeing.
I remember this 'scene' was very exciting. Pre-Internet you had to be in the in-crowd (of nerds) on bulletin boards, or at a meet up to ever find out. It felt like a free upgrade to your processor! here's another that's quite good: http://z80.info/zip/z80-documented.pdf