Programming Throwdown: 2016

Thursday, December 22, 2016

Episode 61: Clojure with Eric Normand

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Clojure with Eric Normand

Tell us about yourself and what you do
What is functional programming?
What is Clojure? How is it different than lisp (or common lisp)?
Why should I learn Clojure?
How can I make an app or website in clojure?
If I want to write one piece in clojure, how would that work?
What is the job market for clojure?
What is the best way to learn clojure?

Eric's resources:

Eric's twitter: https://twitter.com/ericnormand
Purely Functional: https://purelyfunctional.tv
LispCast: http://www.lispcast.com/

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Episode 60: Javascript for Mobile

Javascript For Mobile with Burke Holland

Tell us about yourself and what you do!
How does mobile development work?
How is mobile development different from making a desktop program?
What is NativeScript / React Native?
Why use JavaScript for native development?
If I have to make a website anyways, why not just wrap my existing website into an app (e.g. Cordova)?
How do you think mobile development will change in the next few years?

Burke's resources:

Progress Software - progress.com
NativeScript - nativescript.org
NativeScript Slack Channel - https://nativescriptcommunity.slack.com
NativeScript Getting Started Guide - http://docs.nativescript.org/angular/start/introduction.html
Key Differences Between NativeScript And React Native - https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-key-difference-between-ReactNative-and-NativeScript/answer/Valentin-Stoychev
Hybrid Migration Guide (for those looking to move from Cordova to NativeScript) - http://www.hybridtonative.com
Kendo UI - www.kendoui.com
Kendo UI For Angular 2 - http://www.telerik.com/kendo-angular-ui/
Sharing Code Between Web And Native Mobile - https://github.com/NathanWalker/angular-seed-advanced#general-best-practice-guide-to-sharing-code

Monday, October 31, 2016

Episode 59: Deploying Software

News/Links

Keras / Keras-JS

More Interesting Mazes

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/HermanTulleken/20161005/282629/Algorithms_for_making_more_interesting_mazes.php

MyPy: Static Typing in Python

http://blog.zulip.org/2016/10/13/static-types-in-python-oh-mypy/

CppCon Videos

https://www.youtube.com/user/CppCon

Book of the Show

Jason: Bayesian Methods for Hackers: Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Inference

http://amzn.to/2f685k1

Patrick: Zero to One by Peter Thiel

http://amzn.to/2fal3vO

Tool of the Show

Jason: Termeter

https://github.com/atsaki/termeter

Patrick: Motion Stills

https://get.google.com/motionstills/

Deploying Software Discussion

Application Distribution

Why you can’t zip your program and send the zip to someone

Dependencies

Shared vs. Static libraries

Desktop Installers

Windows: Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
OSX: Sparkle
Linux: Personal Package Archive

App Stores (Steam, Windows, Apple, iOS, Android)
Continuous Delivery vs Continuous Deployment
Web deployment

Hot-swapping a website
Database migration

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Episode 58: Scaling Web Sites

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Scaling Web Sites with Daniel X Moore

Who is Daniel and what is your role at fog creek?

What is a web stack? What are some examples?

Why do front end web programmers have to consider or work on back end systems?

What are the problems/symptoms I might have that should lead to considering docker?

What happens when my website becomes so popular that I need more than one webserver?More than one database?

Monolith vs microservice?

What are the best things to learn now to get started and become productive?

What is HyperDev?

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Episode 57: Optimization

News/Links

Interactive Sudoku Zero Knowledge Proof

http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2016/08/10/interactive-sudoku-zero-knowledge-proof/

OpenStreetMap city blocks

https://peteris.rocks/blog/openstreetmap-city-blocks-as-geojson-polygons/

The cryptopals crypto challenge

http://cryptopals.com/

Simit: A language for physical simulation

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/97075

Book of the Show

Jason: The Manhattan Projects

http://amzn.to/2bK1EBO

Patrick: Theft of Swords

http://amzn.to/2bC9TE8

Tool of the Show

Jason: Google Docs + gdocs2md

https://github.com/mangini/gdocs2md

Patrick: Scrapy

http://scrapy.org/

Optimization Discussion

Architecture

SIMD
GPU
CPU

Compiler settings

Optimization Settings (Why to turn on or off) (size vs speed)
Loop Unrolling

Memory

Cache Levels vs Main Memory
Data Locality/Access Patterns (Matrix multiply optimization)

Indexing

Trees
Hashing (Clustering)

Distributed Computing

Threading

Multi-Thread
Multi-Process
Thread pools

Networking

Load Balancing
Reliable UDP

Algorithmic improvements

Big-O notation
Approximations

Friday, July 22, 2016

Episode 56: Robotics

News/Links

Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer

https://yhatt.github.io/marp/

Apollo Guidance Computer Source Code

http://qz.com/726338/the-code-that-took-america-to-the-moon-was-just-published-to-github-and-its-like-a-1960s-time-capsule/

The Microsoft R Client

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/microsoft-r-client.html

Pokemon will make you crave augmented reality

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/pokemon-go-will-make-you-crave-augmented-reality

Book of the Show

Jason

US Puzzle Championship 2016: http://wpc.puzzles.com/uspc2016

Patrick

Son of the Black Sword (Larry Correia) http://amzn.to/29ZhFEp

Tool of the Show

Jason: Evoluent vertical mouse

http://amzn.to/2ayMdLU

Patrick: 3d printer Folger Tech

https://folgertech.com/

Robotics Discussion

Controls / Actuators

Locomotion
Manipulation
Closed loop vs open loop

Sensors

Cameras
Accelerometers

Planning / Autonomy

Teleoperated
Supervised
Tasked
Autonomous

Communications

Inter system communication
Swarm

Human Machine Interaction

Input
Emotion

Examples

FIRST Robotics
Robotwars
Robocup
Self driving car

Friday, June 24, 2016

Episode 55: Editor Wars

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Intro topic: Mandatory Vacation
https://text.sourcegraph.com/why-vacation-at-tech-companies-should-be-mandatory-better-code-happier-people-d1b549681291#.imcvd6xem

News/Links

Learn the ways of Linux-Fu

https://linuxjourney.com/

OpenAI Gym

https://github.com/openai/gym

Learn Docker by building a Microservice

http://www.dwmkerr.com/learn-docker-by-building-a-microservice/

Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow

http://joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/fizz-buzz-in-tensorflow/

Entitled Tech Worker

https://twitter.com/techemployee?lang=en

Book of the Show

Jason

Parody O’Reilly books: http://imgur.com/gallery/vqUQ5

Patrick

Hard Magic by Larry Correia http://amzn.to/28RYQSO

Tool of the Show

Jason: Let’s Encrypt!

https://letsencrypt.org/

Patrick: Warbits (iOS)

Editor Discussion

Philosophy

Customized
Searchable/Ability to go from usage to definition
Integrated vs roll your own (The stack)

The simplest

Pico/Nano
Notepad/Wordpad

IDE-As-A-Platform

Emacs
Vi/Vim

Java behemoths

Netbeans
Eclipse
Intellij

Corporate IDEs

Visual Studio
XCode

New kids on the block

Sublime
Atom

Language-Specific

MATLAB
R studio
Spyder

In memorium

Code::Blocks
Borland C++ Builder
FreeBASIC

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Episode 54: Programming for the GPU

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Programming for the GPU with Mark Harris

Introductions: Who is Mark Harris? What is NVIDIA?

Parallel Forall blog: https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/

GPUs & Heterogeneous Computing

What's the performance difference between GPU and CPU?
What’s better on a GPU? What’s better on a CPU?
If a program needs to use the CPU (e.g. reading packets from the network) and the GPU (e.g. fluid simulation) at the same time, how do the CPU and GPU programs communicate?

CUDA

What is CUDA?
What’s the difference between SSE / CUDA / OpenCL?
How does someone debug CUDA code?
How does someone profile their code to find bottlenecks?
Cuda Plattorm

Directives, openmp
Cuda c++

CUDA Libraries

Deep Learning
CuBLAS
Drive

Deep Dream:

https://github.com/google/deepdream

Udacity course on CUDA

Intro to parallel programming

Life @ NVIDIA

What is a day working at NVIDIA like?

Monday, May 2, 2016

Episode 53: Open Source Communities

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Open Source Communities with Mikeal Rogers

Introductions: what is the Node.JS foundation?
Open Source Communities

What is an open source community?
What is the relationship between tech companies and open source communities?

Communication

How to people across the global coordinate on a single project? How are disagreements settled?
Are there conventions / events where contributors can meet face-to-face?

Getting involved

I want to improve open source project X, but the codebase is huge and I can’t understand it, how do I get started?
I think my open source project is really great, how do I build an audience and grow the project?

Node.JS

What are some cool projects made in Node.JS?

Nodeschool.io / electron / cordova / stackgl

The Node.JS Foundation

What does the Node.JS Foundation do day-to-day?
I am a student who loves Node.JS, how can I help?
My whole company runs on Node.JS, how can my business help the foundation?

Monday, March 28, 2016

Episode 52: Scientific Python

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Intro topic: Virtual Reality

News/Links

AWS Educate

https://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/

MAME goes Open Source

http://mamedev.org/?p=422

AlphaGo plays Lee Sedol

https://deepmind.com/alpha-go.html

Book of the Show

Jason: Masterminds of Programming

http://amzn.to/1RShZ3l

Patrick: Redshirts by John Scalzi

http://amzn.to/1Rq0u9Y

Tool of the Show

Jason: Laverna

https://laverna.cc/

Patrick: Sandstorm

https://sandstorm.io

Scientific Python

Interfaces

Command-Line
Spyder
Jupyter (formerly ipython notebook)

Divides programs into cells and freezes the state of the system in between cells
Similar to mathematica notebook

Tensor libraries

Numpy

MATLAB-like interface in python
Built on top of LAPACK and other C & Fortran libraries
Faster than native python

Theano

Designed to use the GPU
Deferred Execution (batching)
Built on top of CUDA (GPU) or Numpy (CPU)

Tensorflow

Can use either the CPU or GPU
Visualization tools (control flow diagrams)
Better documentation than Theano

Scientific Libraries

SciPy

Integration, optimization, signal processing, statistics
Sparse linear algebra

Pandas

Data frames, reshaping and pivoting
Reading/writing CSV, SQL, HDF5

PyMC

Bayesian statistical models
Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo

Visualization

Matplotlib

Lightweight, can embed graphs in jupyter

Panoramix

A full service with lots of features, designed to deeply analyze datasets

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Episode 51: Udacity: Democratizing Online Education

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Questions

Knowledge acquisition

How did you (Art / Jason / Patrick) first learn about programming?
If you had to start from scratch, how would you learn now?

Career Advancement

I got a degree in ¬(CS) but I really love programming, what's the best way to land a job in programming?
How can I get tech company X to interview me without a degree in CS?

Certification

How are online/bootcamp courses certified? How is this different than a university accreditation?
Will companies substitute a certification from Udacity for a similar college course?

Udacity

Tell us about Udacity! (idea, conception, history, current state)
Does Udacity have academic courses or does it have industrial courses (or both)?
How is taking an Udacity course different than taking a university course? How is it the same?
Are there any public stats on how Udacity has helped students reach their personal / career goals?

Thursday, January 28, 2016

Episode 50: Congratulations!

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Questions

Being that the job market for programmers are majority looking for B.A to M.A in computer science would it be tough to get hired by learning coding on your own? Or what would be your experience? [Mariano]
What is the story behind Programming Throwdown? What made you decide to get together and make a podcast on programming? [Ashley]
Is there a specific assembler you recommend (I have come across many, Masm, Nasm, Fasm etc..)? And is there any book or learning resource you can recommend for learning assembly?[Ashley]
Why do programmers love to hate on PHP and praise Lisp? [Ariel]
Why haven’t you covered PHP? [Sanyo]
I would like to hear an episode about the open source and "free" software. The ethics behind it and how someone could actually have a viable business which create open source software. [Christopher]
Can you talk about third party metrics and data collection systems? [Keny]
How frequently do programmers make use of open source software in their production-quality projects? [Alex]
Do you prefer Programmer, Developer, Software Engineer? etc? Do you think there are significant differences that go with the various terms or are they roughly interchangeable? Thanks [Mark]
My degree allows me to focus on one of five fields. Software development, Web development, Information Security, Networking, and Database management. What are your takes on the future, applicability, and "in the field" work enviroment for each of these? [Shadrach]
How do you estimate a time frame for developing software? [Jared]
As technology replaces jobs, could you see developers (as opposed to Computer Scientists or Engineers based on the definition of the roles you suggested in one of your podcasts) becoming like welders/machinests/ect from the first machine age? [Ward]
How do you learn [new languages] and why do you use the resources that you use? [Zach]
I was wondering if you could do a talk about editors, or just talk about what you like to use and why. [Steve]
Want to know about programming basics and programming concepts LIke (OOP - Impretive - Functional and so on..) it would be nice to have some Episodes About these titles . [Alex]
Any pearls of wisdom? Any wish you'd knowns sooner? Any recommended resources? You know, "perspective?" [Arie]