Episode 79: Technical Arguments

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Intro

Understanding how Blockchain works

News/Links

• OpenAI Five
• https://blog.openai.com/openai-five/
• Microsoft Acquires GitHub
• https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/04/microsoft-github-empowering-developers/
• Families earning $117,000 now qualify as "low income" in California's Bay Area
• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/families-earning-117000-now-qualify-as-low-income-in-californias-bay-area/
• 5 React Practice Projects
• https://daveceddia.com/react-practice-projects/

Book of the Show

• Jason:
• Critical Play: Radical Game Design
• https://amzn.to/2Kw04XN
• Patrick: 
  • Name of the Wind
  • https://amzn.to/2tWyXKR

Tool of the Show

• Jason: Visual Studio Code https://code.visualstudio.com/
• Patrick: Github https://github.com/

Technical Arguments (1:00:26)

• Making progress vs “Doing it Right”
• Adding/Reclaiming Technical Debt
• Delivering on time
• When/how to optimize
• Language Arguments
• Which language to use
• Tabs vs Spaces
• Style
• IDE/Text Editor
• How to make technical arguments
• Reflect on why you want X
• What alternatives/substitutes exist?  What compromises?
• Do not force an argument to complete in a single session
• In between sessions, reflect on what has changed
• Pick your battles

Episode 78: Building and Testing Web Services with Postman

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Building and Testing Web Services with Postman

• What is a web service and how is it different from a web page?
• What is REST?
• Why would someone use a web service if they aren't building a website?
• How can we make sure a web service is reliable?
• What is Postman?  
• What is it like working at Postman? Is Postman hiring?

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Also on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/postman-api-tools-/

Episode 77: Julia

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Intro

Classic Computer Science

News/Links

• Microsoft Releases AI Training
• https://aischool.microsoft.com/learning-paths
• Belgium declares loot boxes gambling and therefore illegal
• https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-04-25-now-belgium-declares-loot-boxes-gambling-and-therefore-illegal
• Taxonomy of Technical Debt
• https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/taxonomy-tech-debt
• Ubuntu 18.04 is available
• https://insights.ubuntu.com/2018/04/26/ubuntu-18-04-lts-optimised-for-security-multi-cloud-containers-ai

Book of the Show

• Jason:
• Economix: How and Why Our Economy Works (and Doesn't Work) in Words and Pictures
• https://amzn.to/2HuBMwu
• Patrick: 
  • Black Prism
  • https://amzn.to/2HsqqsK

Tool of the Show

• Jason: Brutal Doom http://www.moddb.com/mods/brutal-doom
• Patrick: YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw

Julia (51:10)

• Scientific Programming
• Typically slow interpreter, but very fast instructions
• Optimized instructions
• BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra System) library
• FFTW (Fastest Fourier Transform in the West)
• OpenMP
• IDE with plotting, visualization support
• MATLAB IDE
• Jupyter/ipython
• Top Features
• Async (check episode 41 for details)
• Native multiprocessor and distributed support
• Completely free and open source (better than Java)
• Compiled
• 2017 Used for scientific calculation that reached 1.54 petaflops
• C, C++, Fortran are only other high level languages to be used at 1+ petaflops so far

Episode 76: Code Documentation

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Intro

How to prepare for System Design & ML Design interviews.

News/Links

• How to Crush an Interview
• https://youtu.be/bJ-U6bJGifA
• Avoid Else Return Early
• http://blog.timoxley.com/post/47041269194/avoid-else-return-early
• Ikea Algorithms
• https://idea-instructions.com/
• Playing Distributed Poker with Cryptography (Ron Rivest)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mthPiiCS24A

Book of the Show

• Jason: Hillbilly Elegy
• https://amzn.to/2EkJYsL
• Patrick: Oathbringer
• https://amzn.to/2H9lW72

Tool of the Show

• Jason: iFunny/9GAG
• Patrick: PUBG Mobile

Code Documentation (52:42)

• Why Document?
• More people will read code than write it.
• Recover context on a piece of code quickly.
• Avoid unexpected inputs
• Vanilla code comments
• At the top
• At the line
• Ways to self-document code
• Function & Variable signatures
• Extra scope around variables
• Avoid variable reuse
• (Sometimes) describe the type in the variable name
• Generators
• C/C++/Java
• Doxygen
• Javadocs
• Python
• Sphinx
• Javascript
• JSDoc

Episode 75: Arduino

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Intro

Should working programmers be expected to code in their free time?
https://dev.to/ben/its-perfectly-fine-to-only-code-at-work-dont-let-anyone-tell-you-otherwise--25i3

News/Links

• Game Programming in Lua and Love
• https://github.com/SSYGEN/blog/issues/30
• How to make any story interesting
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjbmUhKpp7k
• Who killed the junior developer?
• https://medium.com/@melissamcewen/who-killed-the-junior-developer-33e9da2dc58c
• Detectron
• https://research.fb.com/downloads/detectron/

Book of the Show

• Jason: Basic Economics
• http://amzn.to/2D0Htv2
• Patrick: Fuzzy Nation
• http://amzn.to/2oJR8l8

Tool of the Show

• Jason: Hyper.js
• https://hyper.is/
• Patrick: K40 Whisperer
• http://www.scorchworks.com/K40whisperer/k40whisperer.html

Arduino

• Overview
• Open Hardware and Software
• Board + IDE
• Software
• Arduino IDE
• Wiring / Arduino language
• Functions
• The Core
• C/C++
• Sketch
• Setup and Loop
• Main calls init(), setup(), loop()
• Processor
• Originally based on 8-bit Atmel AVR chips
• Many variants now. Most known are the ones with female headers to support shields 
• Hardware
• Hardware libraries
• Internal
• ADC
• PWM
• Shields
• Boards that plug into the main board
• Add extra functionality
• Communicate using GPIO pins
• Sensors, Motors, & Displays
• Communicate over GPIO
• May require libraries to use effectively
• Kits & starter packages
• Elegoo ultimate Arduino kit
• http://amzn.to/2FWWdOE

Episode 74 Cryptocurrency & Smart Contracts With Amy Wan

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Cryptocurrency & Smart Contracts With Amy Wan

• What is blockchain?
• What is cryptocurrency?
• What is a smart contract?
• What is an ICO?
• Security vs utility
• What ICOs have you been most excited about?
• How do ICO relate to crowdfunding?
• Any advice for a good crowdfunding campaign?
• What is it like working at Sagewise?  Are you hiring?

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Check out Sagewise's website: https://www.sagewise.io/

Episode 73: Parallel Computing with Incredibuild

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Parallel Computing with Dori Exterman, CTO of Incredibuild

•  What is parallel computing and what is the motivation behind it?
• What problem are people trying to solve by using parallel computing?
• What are the similarities/differences between parallel computing on a single computer vs multiple?
• How do you know if parallel computing will help a given problem?
• How do builds get long?
• How does it affect the trend of moving towards continuous delivery and DevOps practices?
• What are general strategies for getting builds faster? 
• What is it like to work at Incredibuild?  Any job openings?
• Free trial of Incredibuild: https://www.incredibuild.com/trial_download