Rich Vreeland (aka Disasterpeace) talks about his snowflake-catching game January, and how he infused his code with music theory to make generative music.
kelseyhigham / Kelsey Higham
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Charlie Kaufman: Screenwriting Lecture
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StarTalk Live! Satisfying our Curiosity about Mars (Part 1) | StarTalk Radio Show by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science, pop culture & comedy collide on StarTalk w/ astrophysicist & Hayden Planetarium director Neil deGrasse Tyson, comic co-hosts, celebrities & scientists.
http://www.startalkradio.net/show/startalk-live-satisfying-our-curiosity-about-mars-part-1/
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Stop Podcasting Yourself | Maximum Fun
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An Invocation for Beginnings — A Show with Ze Frank
Huffduffed from http://ashow.zefrank.com/episodes/1
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Stack Overflow: Steve Yegge
Huffduffed from http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/podcast-25/
Steve proposes we use the Muppets Show theme as our podcast theme song. I’m more amenable to “The Touch” as featured in the Transformers the Movie from 1986.
We ask how Google maintains its culture in the face of an army of new hires entering the company every month.
Steve is, to put it mildly, a language maven. He shares some of his perspectives on language aesthetics. Should languages be designed by committee, or by a benevolent dictator?
If Steve could teach every developer one thing, it wouldn’t be how to type, or how to write — but how to market.
Google has an infrastructure in place to support “mini-startups” within the company. Joel thinks all good startups must have ideas that sound terrible. YouTube is a great example, as is the Flip video recorder.
Being an entrepreneur often means spending a lot of your time not programming. This can be challenging for software engineers who love to code. Make sure you know what you’re signing up for if you go this route.
Steve is a big believer in the Google experience, even though his last three projects have been cancelled “for business reasons”. Instead of Joel’s “Smart, and Gets Things Done”, Steve proposes “Done, and Gets Things Smart.”
How much does choosing the “right” programming language matter? Isn’t the variance between programmers far more significant to the end result? On the other hand, the best programmers often tend to be fluent in multiple languages.
One way to drag the “one horse language” programmers into multiple languages is to support sublanguages within the same runtime, ala IronPython, IronRuby, Jython, and JRuby.
Steve is considering porting his game Wyvern to Android. He can’t talk about his current full time project at Google, but he does fess up to owning it — both from the business side and the engineering side. So if this time it’s cancelled, we really know who to blame.
Steve: “You can’t write about anything interesting without making a bunch of people mad.”, “Everything you say can be quoted out of context 500 years from now.”
One of my very favorite Steve Yegge posts is You Should Write Blogs. Unfortunately, despite my cajoling, blogging just isn’t for everyone. Too many brilliant programmers are virtually unknown because they have no footprint on the web. This is one of the reasons we created Stack Overflow — to lower that participation barrier, at least a few millimeters.