Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchOrigin Story: Part 1 - Mike Fails at Being a Chemist
Season 3 Episode 63
This episode has a bit of everything. Spaceships! Killer storms! Piracy! Supercomputers that look like furniture! But mainly we discover how Mike …
1 year, 5 months ago
The Failure Modes of Agile with Dr Junade Ali
Season 3 Episode 62
In Episode 40 “Agile Trashers Part 2: The Trashening” we mentioned a study titled “268% Higher Failure Rates for Agile Software Projects”. News about…
1 year, 5 months ago
Do Programmers Need to Know Anything About Computers?
Season 3 Episode 61
This episode is based on a mild difference in view that Erik and I have about whether it’s useful for programmers to know details of computer hardwar…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Story of the CAP Theorem Part 2
Season 3 Episode 60
Mike and Erik return to the CAP Theorem to finish the discussion started last week. Their goal is to try to find answers to this question: why do sof…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Story of the CAP Theorem Part 1
Season 3 Episode 59
Your podcast hosts have a suspicion about the CAP Theorem: if you're a working programmer and you've heard of any single result in the field of distr…
1 year, 6 months ago
Gleaming the Lambda Cube with Nathan Mull
Season 3 Episode 58
This week Nathan Mull, a type theorist and CS Professor at Boston University, came on the show to help Mike and Erik understand what the phrase "Prop…
1 year, 6 months ago
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Frances Allen and Compiler Optimizations
Season 3 Episode 57
This week Mike and Erik discussed the work of Frances Allen, who worked for IBM for 45 years starting in 1957. The first female Turing Award winner, …
1 year, 6 months ago
We Read the News and Everyone’s On Drugs
Season 2 Episode 56
In this episode we looked at the tragic story of tech company CEOs doing drugs and the various knock-on effects.
We also played a lightning round of "…
1 year, 7 months ago
More Favorites: Radix Trees, Kadane's, Raft Leader Election
Season 2 Episode 55
We carried over from last week and kept doing algos! This week we talked about:
- Diffie Hellman
- Radix Trees: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3214…
1 year, 7 months ago
Our Favorite Algorithms: FFTs and Hyperloglogs!
Season 2 Episode 54
Mike wanted to talk about our favorite algorithms this week, so we covered a few:
- Fast Fourier Transforms
- Hyperloglog
Some references are below:
- Ar…
1 year, 7 months ago