I've watched a couple of those, they were really good.
Flipper
Maybe because the person that ran yahoo search into the ground is now responsible for Google search.
Europe, yes. Britain, doubtful.
Video encoding works by combining key frames, the whole picture and delta frames, what and how it changed. As long as you swap the stream at a key frame there is no need for a reencoding.
No. In Germany the big companies all have unions. You can always try to negotiate for better conditions, but it always has to be at least the union Tarif. If you can show that you are worth more you can get it.
I don't know how you loose your keys all the time. But in that case you really should use a key backup.
Factorio did it perfectly. Developed a game and when it was finished 1.0 went yes that is the game state we want. Went 5 years into hiding, came back with a massive DLC, but the quality of life stuff and engine improvements all get pushed to the base game.
Nicht so tief Rüdiger.
The secret lies in patents and Monopoly.
Servo was codeveloped with rust by Mozilla, to get a faster and safer engine. Servo basically showed where improvements needed to be done and then rustc was modified to fit the need.
crash from undocumented function parameter invariants
My favourite, as that was the exact point the dev was making in his talk, that the stuff is badly documented and that the function signature would document it perfectly.
Matrix spec change
Think RFC