carterdmorgan
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Co-host of Book Overflow, a podcast where we read and discuss a new technical book each week. Email me at [email protected]
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Comment · 2 years 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, including audience participation. We've gotten that request from a few people.
Comment · 2 years 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.
Comment · 2 years 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 Brian.
Comment · 2 years 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 story while there's still time left. We take Unix for granted, but its the basis of most of the modern operating system world.
Comment · 2 years 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
Comment · 2 years 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 most modern speakers.
Comment · 2 years 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?
Comment · 2 years ago
Love it! It's not really Jeopardy without the buzzers, is it?
Comment · 2 years 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!
Comment · 2 years 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 link here](https://www.youtube.com/@BookOverflowPod), but we're on all major platforms). Each week we read and discuss a new software engineering book. We also love to interview the authors when possible. Our [interview with Brian Kernighan](https://youtu.be/_QQ7k5sn2-o?si=bi3omgmNW7bs50NQ) actually went viral here on HN last week, peaking at #3.
If you're willing to provide us with an advance copy and one/some of the authors are willing to sit down for a digital interview, we'd love to devote a discussion episode and bonus interview episode to the book. We could even time the release to line up with the release of the book.
Let me know if you're interested. We can work out the details either here in the thread or you can reach us at contact at bookoverflow.io.
Comment · 2 years ago
Agreed. Reading books is great if it's replacing Twitter and Reddit time. It's not great if it's replacing coding time.