Dave Plummer

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #479 – Dave Plummer: Programming, Autism, and Old-School Microsoft Stories · 29 Aug 2025 podcast

So you have a rotating knob, which is an optical spinner, and you have a fire button and a super zapper for emergencies.

But that's it.

Fire and rotate, basically.

Because it allows me to encapsulate my favorite C code in classes.

I'm not a big, well, I actually- You're really a C guy.

Yeah, I'm really a C guy.

Although I write two kinds of C++.

I write really modern C++ 20.

using no pointers or no character strings.

So it's basically as safe as Rust, as far as I'm concerned.

Or I write C with classes, which is standard C, but with polymorphism and encapsulation.

And that's most of what my code is.

But I try to do both.

Now that was, other than like family health scares, you know, when kids are sick, that was the scariest time of my life.

And the period leading up to it was one of the most invigorating and exciting because what had happened was while I was at Microsoft, I had written all these shareware utilities and I was selling them on the side and sold one to Microsoft as we talked about.

And they started to do really well.

And then I discovered banner advertising online.

And so I signed up with my credit card for a site, I think it was called FastClick.

And you could say, I will pay this much for a banner ad impression.

Here's my banner.

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