Episode 86: Wolfram Language and Mathematica

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Wolfram Language and Mathematica

• What is Wolfram Language?
• What is the difference among the wolfram language, mathematica, and wolfram alpha?
• Pros and Cons of proprietary language
• Wolfram Language dev meetings livestreamed?  What is that like?
• New products coming from Wolfram Research?
• How to teach kids to code?
• Jobs?

Stephen's homepage: https://stephenwolfram.com/
Wolfram Language: https://www.wolfram.com/language/
Livestream of Wolfram's dev team meetings: https://www.twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram

Episode 85: Holiday Party

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News/Links

• Amazon HQ2
• https://ny.curbed.com/2018/12/18/18146208/long-island-city-market-report-amazon-hq2
• Serverless Programming
• https://www.infoq.com/articles/serverless-sea-change
• SpaceX 20th Launch of the year
• https://spacenews.com/spacex-launches-dragon-cargo-spacecraft-on-20th-mission-of-2018/
• Flutter 1.0
• https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/12/flutter-10-googles-portable-ui-toolkit.html
• Things nobody told me about being a S/W engineer
• https://anaulin.org/blog/things-nobody-told-me-about-being-a-software-engineer/
• Flipping Tables ascii emoji
• https://looks.wtf/flipping-tables

Episode 84: Customer Bug Handling

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Intro

Funny Computer Science Pop Culture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRcdmbC0HHs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Hn1rPQouU

News/Links

• SQL in Google Sheets
• https://www.benlcollins.com/spreadsheets/google-sheets-query-sql/
• Deserialization Issues
• https://www.zdnet.com/article/deserialization-issues-also-affect-ruby-not-just-java-php-and-net/
• StackSort a la XKCD
• http://gkoberger.github.io/stacksort/
• GraphQL: A Retrospective
• https://verve.co/engineering/graphql-a-retrospective/

Book of the Show

• Jason:
• Pass
• Patrick: 
  • Food Lab by Kenji Lopez-Alt
  • https://amzn.to/2PkWkGH

Tool of the Show

• Jason: Software RAID Controller
• Patrick: Pass

Customer Bug Handling (41:04)

• Desktop
• Distribute your binary
• Turn on debug symbols
• Add rolling logs
• Balancing size vs not missing the event
• Log Levels (Performance implications)
• Add crash handlers
• Catch Signals
• Process logs
• Grep / jq
• Interpreting Stack Traces
• Addr2line / atos
• Turn off address scrambling (security implications)
• Sending data to your database
• REST/GraphQL endpoint
• Windows/Fedora/Debian crash aggregator
• Web Client
• Send crash logs over AJAX
• Mobile
• Android: https://github.com/ACRA/acra
• iOS: https://github.com/kstenerud/KSCrash

Episode 83: Teaching Kids to Code

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Intro

Building your own keyboard from scratch.

News/Links

• Nebraska Problem
• https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0011
• PyTorch 1.0
• https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2018/05/02/announcing-pytorch-1.0-for-research-production/
• Cosmic Ladder
• https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/the-cosmic-distance-ladder-ver-4-1/
• How to develop a boilerplate REST API
• https://hackernoon.com/how-to-develop-a-boilerplate-for-api-with-node-js-express-and-mongodb-4c771ae1c2df

Book of the Show

• Jason:
• Enlightenment Now https://amzn.to/2B3rvCt
• Patrick: 
  • The Bands of Mourning https://amzn.to/2TabkKH

Tool of the Show

• Jason: Quip https://quip.com/
• Patrick: Stardew Valley (iOS & Android)

Teaching Kids to Code (47:04)

Episode 82: Reactive programming and the Actor model with Jonas Bonér

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Reactive programming and the Actor model with Jonas Bonér

• Tell us about your background
• What is reactive programming?
• What is the actor model?  How does it fit with reactive programming?
• Why would someone use this way of programming?
• When is it applicable and when it is not a good fit?
• How does the actor model compare to other distributed programming paradigms (MPI, Map-Reduce)
• How can the system recover from node failure?
• What is Akka?
• What is it like to work at Lightbend?  Are you hiring?

More info:

Follow Jonas Bonér on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jboner

Check out Akka here: https://akka.io/

Episode 81: 2018 Mailbag

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Intro

Christmas Gifts

News/Links

• Rendering an island from Moana with Open Source
• https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/07/16/moana-island-pbrt-all.html
• TED-Ed Riddles
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMFpOcLroOg

Book of the Show

• Jason:
• Aesop's Fables
• Patrick: 
  • The Blinding Knife: https://amzn.to/2MPO70V

Tool of the Show

• Jason:
• Tensorboard & TensorboardX https://www.tensorflow.org/guide/summaries_and_tensorboard
• Patrick:
• Sproggiwood

Mailbag (29:15)

• Nathan
•  PICO-8 and/or the pocketCHIP (if you order one, be warned they are behind on other orders. Check their forums) for simple 2D game development with Lua.
• Dylan
• Modding video games?
• David
• http://aduni.org/
• Jack
• How do we manage passwords?
• “A Listener”
• For job security, as an individual, is it best to have a little knowledge on a lot of languages or to specialise in just a single one
• Switching programming languages for a whole organization
• Chris
• OS X, Windows, Linux? If Linux, what distro? What do you use day to day? What languages? 
• What's your favorite development platform? Laptop? Battlestation? SMART PHONE?!
• BSDTech (Discord)
• I have a question.  As a fairly new programmer how do you best deal with variables changing types and being cast wrong in languages like python (what im working on).  In C it was fairly easy either its the right type all the time or it fails miserably and you didn't have random "its a NoneType this time" errors other than doing a ton of if loops checking for it
• McGee (Discord)
• I’m taking a class this semester called Operating Systems. In this class we will be creating a basic operating system in C and apparently some Assembly... what are some things to keep in mind or to expect when writing something like this?
• Vellor (Discord)
• Will we ever revisit topics on the show?
• Apettit9 (Discord)
• What do you listen to while you work?
• Peter (Discord)
• What are some of the best work from home positions? Sometimes it's hard to work remote, but are there any positions that are a good fit? Or does it depend more on company culture/co-workers?
• ReillyC52 (Discord)
• Where are some of best places to discover new open source projects and contribute to them ?
• Grant (Discord)
• Immutable vs. mutable objects
• New AI Libraries (tensorflow, keras, pytorch)

Episode 80: Concurrency

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Intro

We are on discord! https://discord.gg/r4V2zpC

News/Links

• 15 Years of SparkFun
• https://www.sparkfun.com/news/2571
• Build a CPU in the web browser
• http://nandgame.com/diagram
• Why Discord is Sticking With React Native
• https://blog.discordapp.com/why-discord-is-sticking-with-react-native-ccc34be0d427
• Fortnite has made over $1Billion so far
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2018/07/18/fortnite-battle-royale-has-made-over-1-billion-as-it-completely-dominates-video-game-streaming/#16a8bffb15ce

Book of the Show

• Jason:
• Dear Harvard Business Review (podcast)
• Patrick: 
  • Old Man's War: https://amzn.to/2LPEXjL

Tool of the Show

• Jason: PyTorch https://pytorch.org/
• Patrick: Suzy Cube (iOS and Android)

Concurrency (29:15)

• Why?
• Getting more work done
• Handling asynchronous requests
• How?
• Threads vs Processes
• Message Passing
• Shared Memory
• Threadpool
• Locking/Mutex/Semaphore
• Coordinating Threads
• Preventing Threads from modifying the same structure
• Pitfalls
• Race conditions
• Deadlock
• Advice
• Don’t do concurrency yourself
• Gnu parallel
• Async libraries
• Basic Linear Algebra System
• Have a way to actually measure results