Episode 99: Squashing bugs using AI and Machine Learning with Boris Paskalev

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Squashing bugs using AI and Machine Learning with Boris Paskalev

• 0:1:20 Intro
• 0:2:57 Going from developer to business school
• 0:6:40 How to do analysis on code
• 0:14:28 JSNice and Nice2Predict: 
• http://www.jsnice.org/
• http://www.nice2predict.org/
• 0:14:32 How to people catch bugs?
• 0:18:40 Debugging horror stories
• 0:26:25 What is using DeepCode like?
• 0:35:27 Languages supported
• 0:39:50 The machine learning behind DeepCode
• 0:46:30 DeepCode Pricing
• 0:50:35 DeepCode the company
• 0:58:15 Running the DeepCode extension
• 0:59:40 Reaching out

Deep Code email: hello@deepcode.ai
Boris' email: boris@deepcode.ai
Deepcode Twitter: https://twitter.com/DeepCodeAI
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Episode 98: Agile Thinking with ZenHub

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Agile Thinking with ZenHub

• What is agile?
• Why should engineers use/learn agile (or any software development model)?
• What is an easy way to get started with agile?
• What is ZenHub’s pricing model? Discounts/coupons for students?
• Walk us through a day in the life of a ZenHub engineer
• Is ZenHub hiring?  Internships?

ZenHub: https://www.zenhub.com
ZenHub Jobs: https://www.zenhub.com/careers
Aaron's Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/imaaronupright
Educative: educative.io/ProgrammingThrowdown

Episode 97: Holiday Mailbag

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Episode 96: Continuous Integration with Rob Zuber

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Continuous Integration with Rob Zuber

• 0:57 Intro
• 3:57 Data center hardware
• 7:27 First starting to write software
• 8:26 Sales engineering
• 13:37 Staying motivated
• 22:58 The origins of CircleCI
• 24:10 Why write tests?
• 35:10 Educative: Sign up using educative.io/ProgrammingThrowdown
• 40:04 Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery
• 48:30 Merging pull requests safely with CI
• 54:26 Writing good tests
• 1:00:43 Running tests in the cloud
• 1:07:16 Overview of docker and CircleCI backend
• 1:15:30 Why it’s better to use a provider than run CI yourself
• 1:25:37 CircleCI the company
• 1:36:10 Working remotely
• 1:50:49 Reaching out

CircleCI: https://www.circleci.com/
CircleCI Jobs: https://circleci.com/careers/
Rob's Twitter: https://twitter.com/z00b
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Episode 95: WebRTC with Sean DuBois

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WebRTC with Sean DuBois

• Making changes to a language itself
• How do people connect using WebRTC?
• What is WebRTC?
• What are options for using WebRTC in your app?
• NAT traversal
• WebRTC security and identification
• The challenges of WebRTC
• Dealing with latency and packet loss
• Sending data reliably
• How did Sean get into WebRTC?
• Tips for getting a job in coding
• How to contribute to Pion

Pion project: https://github.com/pion/webrtc
Pion Twitter: https://twitter.com/_pion/

Episode 94: Search at Etsy

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Search at Etsy

• What happens when someone enters a search query?
• User Intent
• Indexing
• Embedding
• Running experiments and A/B testing, Long-Term Value (LTV)
• Ranking
• Reasoning & acting on ML results
• Building ML models
• Handling people's sense of style
• Size of team, archetype of an Etsy ranking engineer
• Handling winner-take-all market conditions
• Open Source @ Etsy
• Hiring & roles available
• Interview process
• Intern opportunities

Etsy's Engineering Blog: https://codeascraft.com/
Liangjie Hong: https://twitter.com/hongliangjie

Episode 93: A Journey to Programming Mastery

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A Journey to Programming Mastery with Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas

• Painful programming
• Origins of Pragmatic Programmer
• What is a pragmatic programmer?
• Advice: learn many languages!
• What is programming?
• Prototyping
• Improving the interview process
• The “10x engineer” (a.k.a. The phenomenal jerk)
• Programming consciously vs. unconsciously
• How to balance maintaining good code with building new things
• Kent Beck’s “3x”: https://ideas.riverglide.com/3x-explore-expand-extract-b9aad6402a5a
• What do tech leaders do?
• How to get your first coding job
• New changes in the 20th anniversary edition

Andy: https://twitter.com/PragmaticAndy
Dave: https://twitter.com/pragdave
Get your book here:  https://pragprog.com/book/tpp20/the-pragmatic-programmer-20th-anniversary-edition