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

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Dave: https://twitter.com/pragdave
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Episode 92: Basics of UI Design for Engineers with Erik Kennedy

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Basics of UI Design for Engineers with Erik Kennedy

• Best way to try making UIs for coders
• Common design mistakes that rookie designers make – and how to fix them
• Color and typography
• How to build your gut instinct for "good design", even if you aren't an artsy type
• Why front-end developers should learn a passable amount of visual design
• What conventional design advice you should ignore
• Freelancing: how does that work? how do you find clients?

Erik's Website: https://learnui.design

Erik's Twitter: @erikdkennedy

Episode 91: Functional Programming with Adam Gordon Bell

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Functional Programming with Adam Bell

• What is Functional Programming (FP)?
• Does everyone use the term FP to mean the same thing
• Why / When is FP useful?
• How did you start using Scala as a programming language
• What is unique about Scala?
• Scala / FP emphasizes using types extensively to build better software, possibly more than seen in traditional static typed programming languages - why is that valuable?

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Episode 90: Terminals and Shells

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Intro

The Good & Bad of Ambition

News/Links

• Kalman Filtering
• https://github.com/rlabbe/Kalman-and-Bayesian-Filters-in-Python
• Distributed Consensus Revised
• https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/05/07/distributed-consensus-revised-part-i/
• Hacker News Academy
• https://hn.academy/best/all-time/

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Book of the Show

• Jason:
• Oprah Supersoul
• Patrick: 
  • Red Sister (Book of the Ancestor #1) by Mark Lawrence
  • https://amzn.to/2HuJvZR

Tool of the Show

• Jason: 
  • Folly https://github.com/facebook/folly
• Patrick:
• Golf Blitz

Terminals and Shells (45:34)

• Terminal Emulators
• Renders terminal output
• Terminal output has a protocol (ANSI codes)
• Position cursor
• Colors
• Ring bell
• Draw pixels
• Popular Terminal Emulators
• Cmd & Powershell (Windows)
• Windows Terminal (Windows)
• Gterminal / Konsole (Linux)
• Terminal / iTerm2 (OS/X)
• Hyper.js (Cross Platform)
• Shells
• Read/Writes terminal protocol
• Executes programs
• Advanced Features
• Tab completion
• Prompt (status)
• Show git branch
• Popular shells
• Bash
• Zsh
• Oh-My-Zsh
• Fish
• ShellCheck

Episode 89: From Combat to Code

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From Combat to Code

• Journey from Air Force to software developer.
• What are the biggest challenges with going into S/W from another career?
• What is the biggest career challenge to vets that most civilians don't know about?
• What is Vets Who Code?
• Where did the idea to focus on Javascript come from?
• Is Vets Who Code hiring?  What positions (teachers, coordinators, etc.)?
• Many of our listeners are students or just finishing school, what advice would you give them?

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Episode 88: Image Processing

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Intro

Owning vs Streaming Video Games

News/Links

• Multithreading Tutorial Game
• https://deadlockempire.github.io/
• Godfathers of AI win Turing award
• https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/27/18280665/ai-godfathers-turing-award-2018-yoshua-bengio-geoffrey-hinton-yann-lecun
• Odroid Go
• https://wiki.odroid.com/odroid_go/odroid_go
• GNUplot with sixel – Mix images, ANSI colors and plots
• https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-gnuplot

Book of the Show

• Jason:
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
• https://amzn.to/2uAEEPA
• Patrick: 
  • Promise of Blood
  • https://amzn.to/2FOmSxA

Tool of the Show

• Jason: 
  • PuLP and PyBNB
  • https://pythonhosted.org/PuLP/
  • https://pybnb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• Patrick:
• Halide
• https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/halide/id885697368?mt=8

Image Processing (52:20)

• How Images are Formed and Stored
• Sensor capturing light
• Debayering
• RGB Color Depth
• Image Compression
• Video Compression
• High Level Image Processing
• Filtering
• Spatial Domain
• Frequency Domain
• Photo Editing
• Computer Vision
• Classification / Recognition
• Tracking
• Photogrammetry
• Tools
• OpenCV
• Python Image Library
• Scipy ndimage