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David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

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4269 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

So they don't do that in Spain.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

I mean, in most places, except for the German Autobahn, they get pissy if you go twice the speed limit for all sorts of fair reasons.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

I'm not advocating that you should be going much more than that.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

But there are certain special roads where you can open things up and no one's in harm's way.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

And that's an incredible sensation.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

And I do think that some of those speed limits actually are kind of silly.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

And I'm not just saying that in a vacuum.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

In Germany, they have the glorious Autobahn.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

And on the Autobahn, there is no speed limit in a bunch of segments.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

And they're so committed to their speed limitless Autobahn, which is, by the way, very weird of Germans.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

They usually love rules.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

They usually are very precise about it.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

And then they have this glorious thing called the Autobahn.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

There was a great case a couple of years ago where a guy took out a Bugatti Chiron, went 400 kilometers an hour on the Autobahn, and he filmed it and put it on YouTube and posted.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

A case was brought against him because even though they don't have a speed limit, they do have rules that you can't drive recklessly.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

And he won the case.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

He wasn't driving recklessly.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

He was just going very, very fast.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

I've done the Autobahn a couple of times.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

My wife and I went on a road trip in Europe in 2009.

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