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[Sponsor] Linear helps teams track issues, manage projects, collaborate on docs, and ship products - and the crazy thing is their software is actually fast and a joy to use. Learn more: https://trm.sh/linear [Description] In this episode of The Standup, Casey Muratori joins us to look at the fascinating parallels between 1968 tech and today. We examine the original context of "premature optimization is the root of all evil" and flip through the pages of Datamation from over 50 years ago. It’s a wild trip through early ray tracing, the birth of firmware, and the first mentions of virtual machines. [Chapters] 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:59 - Snacks 00:02:14 - Dax’s Credit Card Fraud [BLOCKER] 00:04:06 - Linear 00:04:54 - How much fraud do you want? 00:12:56 - Skipped Blockers 00:14:30 - The man with an orange head 00:16:13 - Legendary Casey Muratori 00:19:12 - The origin of Premature optimization is the root of all evil 00:22:49 - The effort involved in a long talk 00:28:40 - Remotion AI Powerpoint Animations 00:31:28 - The Root of The Root of All Evil Presentation LITE Start 00:34:04 - Datamation Issues 00:36:45 - New 4k Display in 1968 00:37:13 - 1968 Comp Sci Salaries 00:37:40 - AI taking over the world since 1968 00:38:49 - The Cope .45 00:39:40 - 1968 Datamining Concerns 00:41:24 - 1968 SAAS 00:41:54 - Software patent bill 00:42:18 - Conway's law in print 00:44:25 - UEFI BIOS 00:45:28 - Virtual Machines 00:47:16 - THE END OF OS 00:48:17 - LBJ Stamped ASCII 00:50:14 - COBOL Ad 00:50:57 - Computers to win Elections 00:51:35 - AI Lawyers 00:52:16 - To Err Is Agentic 00:54:31 - Flock Cameras in 1968 00:56:26 - Dont eat in the computer room 00:56:48 - 1.5cents per bit 00:57:56 - A Hexadecimal Pronunciation Guide 01:00:01 - Privacy and Freedom 01:00:55 - How do you gruntle 01:01:51 - Computer Technology in communist China 01:02:22 - The First Raytraced Image 01:04:05 - The Root of The Root of All Evil Presentation LITE End 01:06:16 - Outro [Hosts/Guests] Prime: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/theprimeagen Teej: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/teej-dv Trash: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/trash Casey: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/cmuratori [Sources] Dax Fraud Tweet: https://x.com/thdxr/status/2092238606987370884 Stripes Fraud Pricing Update: https://support.stripe.com/questions/updates-to-radar-pricing-(january-2027)) Caseys BSC 2025 Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo84LFzx5nI Caseys BSC 2026 Talk: http://computerenhance.com/theroot (lots more sources here too) Programmer of the Month (Edsger Dijkstra) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnMnXsmxoHc [Partners] Linear: https://trm.sh/linear Sentry: https://trm.sh/sentry [Socials] x.com/thestanduppod instagram.com/thestanduppod tiktok.com/@thestanduppod facebook.com/profile.php?id=61573286173150 [Other Places to find us] Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/01A062kejnXFkJE01bjN5J RSS: thestanduppod.com/feed.xml Clips: @TheStandupPodClips Website: thestanduppod.com [Tags] TheStandupPod, Casey Muratori, programming history, premature optimization, Donald Knuth, computing 1968, Datamation magazine, software engineering, credit card fraud, Stripe Radar, Conway's Law, firmware history, virtual machines, ray tracing history, tech humor, game development, computer history, software patents, software as a service, terminal, tech podcast