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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
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 do
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
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 f
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
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 Some of the specific programming examples are pretty outdated, but the general ideas are as solid as ever!
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
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 so
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
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 focusi
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
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.
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Brian Kernighan reflects on his book The Practice of Programming(youtube.com)
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by carterdmorgan 2y ago
I co-host a podcast called Book Overflow ( https://bookoverflow.io ) where each week we read and discuss a new software engineering book. We keep the conversations fairly dense. We've even interviewed a few of the authors, li