Alexander Georgiev: WTF, Languages!?

Do you know what “(new Date()).getYear()” will return in Javascript? What does the expression “True is False == False” evaluate to in Python? Is 10 * (1 / 10.0) == 1 in C++?

Watch and see - the results might shock you! These 3 weird tricks helped Alexander become a better programmer. Enlarge your knowledge and watch his talk from #hackconf 2019!

Alexander Georgiev (a.k.a. espr1t) has been programming for 10000 years now – in the beginning as a participant in programming competitions (he has won a few of those), and now as a professional developer. His work experience includes companies like Facebook and Google and he's currently a senior engineer at Skyscanner. As he likes saying, without IT he's just espr.