carterdmorgan

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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
That's something we've been considering! Right now I'm wrapping up my masters degree and will finish in April (fingers crossed). Once I have more free time, we're going to look at other ways to expand the podcast, includ
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
I'm one of the creators of the podcast. We do what we can, but this is very much a side project for us. We're both full-time SDEs with day jobs.
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
I’m one of the creators of the podcast. Thanks for linking to the site! If you’re not familiar with the podcast, we read and discuss a new software engineering book each week. When we can, we interview the authors, like we just did with Bri
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
It's definitely a bit of a melancholy read. Some of the people who invented Unix are long gone, and we probably don't have a lot of time left with the people who are still with us. I'm glad Brian was able to tell the full sto
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Martin Fowler Reflects on Refactoring [video](youtube.com)
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Stephen Wolfram Reflects on What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work? [video](youtube.com)
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Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin Reflects on "Clean Coder" [video](youtube.com)
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
Funny you would post this today! I actually just conducted an interview with John on A Philosophy of Software Design. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0kTux_YNHw
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
You can argue that Shakespeare is comprehensible to a modern English speaker, but I don't think you can argue that it's modern English. The different "you" forms alone are enough to make it difficult to understand for mo
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
Great idea here. I wonder if there's potentially more demand for new programming languages now purely as benchmarks for LLMs, like you said?
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
Love it! It's not really Jeopardy without the buzzers, is it?
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
Super interested in this! I left a main comment in the thread about a potential promotional opportunity for you all, so let me know if you're interested!
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
I love it! One of my big hesitations in using LLMs in any projects is the inherent instability of it, so I'm excited to see some concrete strategies on how to mitigate that. Actually, I host a podcast called Book Overflow ([YouTube lin
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
Agreed. Reading books is great if it's replacing Twitter and Reddit time. It's not great if it's replacing coding time.
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
One of the great things about The Practice of Programming is how much it references other non-coding works. You can tell Kernighan draws his knowledge from many sources, not just technical ones.
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
Thanks for the heads up on "The Unix Programming Environment!" I've been searching for a book with a concise explanation on how to write a compiler, and you can't go wrong with one from Kernighan!
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
Added to the backlog! As our audience grows, we've debated doing live backlog grooming on YouTube so that listeners have a chance to chime in and voice their opinions on what we should read.
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
Certainly successful intelligent people often excel in personalities. Hard to get places without playing nice with others to a degree.
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
They mention at one point that Java doesn't have a way to pass a function as a parameter to another function. That was added in Java 8 with lambdas. That's just one off the top of my head.
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
Good idea. Now that I think of it, I've seen other creators do something similar.
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
Yeah, someone on YouTube pointed out the same thing. D'oh. I wish Brian would have corrected us! We'd love to get Rob Pike on too! Currently working on it, although he's a little harder to get a hold of.
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
That's been my experience so far, especially because the focus of the podcast is explicitly on the book. It's not, "Hey, come on my podcast to discuss the latest AI development and then maybe plug your book at the end,"
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
It's a rare combination to find someone both as intelligent and humble as he is. Truly a blessing to our industry.
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
It was an on-screen virtual interview, so while I believe they had scrubbed the Git history, you weren't allowed to look it up.
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
Sounds interesting! We're trying to figure out if we should be focusing on more modern books even if they're "unproven" or classics even if they're outdated. Sometimes reading the classics can be a lot of fun becaus
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
We would have loved nothing more than to talk to him for hours. He was already calling in from England while on his vacation, so I didn't want to take any more of his time, haha!
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
Yeah, definitely not my area of expertise. We’ll need to explore it further and make sure there’s nothing sketchy before making a decision.
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
We might have to add Elements of Programming Style to our backlog.
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
Oh yeah, that’s a good idea. We’ll have to do that. We’ve been debating setting up Amazon affiliate links to the books in the episode descriptions. We were going to wait until we were a little bigger, but after today we might have to speed
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
What do you mean by this exactly? Like a list of all upcoming books we’ll discuss? If you’re curious, you can find that on our website at www.bookoverflow.io!

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