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)