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Brian Kernighan on "The Practice of Programming" [video]
Author : zdw
Score : 134 points
Date : 2024-07-10 14:45 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| fuzztester wrote:
| I'm only one third of the way through the video, but could see
| that the podcasters are asking some good insightful questions.
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| Thanks for sharing, OP.
| carterdmorgan wrote:
| I just found out we cracked the Top 20 on Hacker News! Crazy!
| I'm Carter, one of the podcasters from the video. I'm glad
| you're enjoying it! It was such a huge honor to talk to Brian
| Kernighan.
| jjice wrote:
| I hadn't heard of this podcast until just now, but an entire
| show dedicated to software book sounds like a dream come
| true! I'm going to download a few of these for the train. I
| love that you guys are diving into such a niche!
| carterdmorgan wrote:
| Thanks so much! When we had this idea, I was certain that
| it had to have been done before because it seemed like such
| a gap in the market. To my surprise, it didn't exist! We
| love the format because not only do we learn a ton, but by
| focusing on the books we keep the discussions substantive
| and avoid becoming the millionth "tech news of the week"
| podcast.
| mettamage wrote:
| How did you get him on your podcast? That's amazing!
| carterdmorgan wrote:
| To be totally honest, I just looked up his Princeton email
| and asked lol. I told him we loved the book and would love
| to interview him about it. He was like "What? I haven't
| thought about that book in 20 years. But I'm sure we could
| find something to talk about for an hour." He was so
| amazingly kind and generous with his time.
|
| He's not the only author we've gotten on the podcast! We've
| already published our episode with Mark Richards on
| "Fundamentals of Software Architecture" but we also have in
| the can and ready to go over the next few weeks Neal Ford
| of "Fundamentals of Software Architecture" and John
| Ousterhout of "A Philosophy of Software Design." That's not
| public knowledge yet, so consider it an exclusive Hacker
| News comment section scoop, haha!
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| We also have some pretty big names we're in talks with, but
| I won't make any promises until the interviews are actually
| recorded. But we've been so thrilled at the author response
| so far and are super excited about the future of the
| podcast!
| dinkumthinkum wrote:
| I found your podcast a few days ago on a different book. Keep
| it up, I think you have a good niche and doing something you
| rarely see, which are deep dives on programming books. The
| only other one I really know of is Connor Hoekstra has a
| couple nice playlists on SICP and something else but this is
| a little different, good job.
| carterdmorgan wrote:
| Thanks for listening! Which book was it that you found?
|
| It's definitely a breadth over depth kind of podcast, but I
| don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. We wanted it to
| feel like hearing two coworkers discuss a book over lunch.
| We don't provide comprehensive reviews, but rather just
| highlight what we found the most interesting, while trying
| to keep it substantive.
| JetSetIlly wrote:
| I love the Practice of Programming. Of all the books on
| programming that I've read, the lessons of that book are the ones
| that remain strongest in my mind. I've not read it in many years
| but I feel it influences my practice everyday.
| carterdmorgan wrote:
| It was the first time I've ever read it and I was surprised how
| much of it still held true given it's 25 years old. Some of the
| specific programming examples are pretty outdated, but the
| general ideas are as solid as ever!
| zombiwoof wrote:
| I wish interviewing now was more about knowing the concepts in
| that book versus leetcode
|
| Brian Kernighan prob couldn't pass a leetcode hard interview in
| this ridiculous new world
| carterdmorgan wrote:
| My last interview cycle I interviewed with some big names
| (Stripe, Square, Shopify, etc.) and was pleased that none of
| them asked any LeetCode style questions. All pretty practical
| programming stuff. Stripe had an interview where they had
| forked the Jackson Java library, introduced a bug, and then
| asked me to find and fix it. Pretty unique style, but much more
| applicable to the actual job of programming.
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