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A special edition of Coder Radio that dives into the darker side of start ups, the practicality of building super portable apps, the wear advantage & NASA’s top 10 coding commandments.

Plus Noah from the Linux Action Show joins us, we cover some great feedback & more!

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Hipster Tendencies | CR 159

chris — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 14:47:25 +0000

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Mike makes the case for Chris’ slide into hipsterhood & Chris responds in kind. Between those hijinks the guys discuss the massive LLVM advantage Apple is leveraging that nobody is talking about.

Plus we reflect on the most important skill in software development, read some emails & more!

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Apple’s Bitcode Telegraphs Future CPU Plans

The biggest announcement at this week’s WWDC is one hardly anyone noticed. During the Platforms State of the Union on Tuesday, Andreas Wendker briefly mentioned Bitcode, describing it as an opportunity for future compiler optimizations to be applied to already-submitted apps. He also mentioned that it allows apps to be future-proofed by letting the store add support for future CPU features without developers having to resubmit.

This means that apps can automatically “take advantage of new processor capabilities we might be adding in the future, without you re-submitting to the store.”

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The most important skill in software development

Here’s an insightful paragraph from James Hague’s blog post Organization skills beat algorithmic wizardry:

When it comes to writing code, the number one most important skill is how to keep a tangle of features from collapsing under the weight of its own complexity. I’ve worked on large telecommunications systems, console games, blogging software, a bunch of personal tools, and very rarely is there some tricky data structure or algorithm that casts a looming shadow over everything else. But there’s always lots of state to keep track of, rearranging of values, handling special cases, and carefully working out how all the pieces of a system interact. To a great extent the act of coding is one of organization. Refactoring. Simplifying. Figuring out how to remove extraneous manipulations here and there.

Algorithmic wizardry is easier to teach and easier to blog about than organizational skill, so we teach and blog about it instead. A one-hour class, or a blog post, can showcase a clever algorithm. But how do you present a clever bit of organization? If you jump to the solution, it’s unimpressive. “Here’s something simple I came up with. It may not look like much, but trust me, it was really hard to realize this was all I needed to do.” Or worse, “Here’s a moderately complicated pile of code, but you should have seen how much more complicated it was before. At least now someone stands a shot of understanding it.” Ho hum. I guess you had to be there.

You can’t appreciate a feat of organization until you experience the disorganization. But it’s hard to have the patience to wrap your head around a disorganized mess that you don’t care about. Only if the disorganized mess is your responsibility, something that means more to you than a case study, can you wrap your head around it and appreciate improvements. This means that while you can learn algorithmic wizardry through homework assignments, you’re unlikely to learn organization skills unless you work on a large project you care about, most likely because you’re paid to care about it.

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Privileged Programmers | CR 158

chris — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 14:24:57 +0000

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Mike and Chris share their totally different perspective on the recent Yelp developer’s public exodus & discuss the big new industry trend developers need to take advantage of.

Then after 158 episodes, Mike’s mission in life is realized during our feedback segment.

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Notch Escapes | CR 119

chris — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 13:41:23 +0000

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Did Microsoft buying Mojang come around because Notch was burned out? Is the problem systemic to independent developers who just love to code?

Plus we respond to your strong feedback regarding privacy & much more!

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I’m leaving Mojang | notch.net

As soon as this deal is finalized, I will leave Mojang and go back to doing Ludum Dares and small web experiments. If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I’ll probably abandon it immediately.

Unity Technologies weighs its options, including a possible sale of the company

Unity Technologies, the makers of prolific video-game-development engines and tools, is exploring options for its future. One of those options is the possible sale of the company. The asking price is apparently very high — we’ve heard over $1 billion to as high as $2 billion.

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Open Source, Closed Wallets | CR 97

chris — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:16:04 +0000

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The Heartbleed bug has ignited a new round of open source doubters, but are the renewed concerns about the open source development model unfounded? And what can be done to avoid catastrophes like this in the future? We discuss.

Plus an honest discussion about that moment of no return, your feedback, and more!

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Heartbleed security bug: a software developer perspective?

Open Source software is the worst kind except for all of the others

A few people have suggested that the problem is that OpenSSL is open source, and code this important should be left to trained professionals. They\’re wrong.

So all in all, it\’s a miracle that OpenSSL works at all, and a tribute to the skill
and diligence of the handful of people who\’ve been working on it all these years.
Experience with heartbleed shows that while open source doesn\’t prevent bugs, it
makes it very fast to fix them.
It\’s been little more than a week since we learned about heartbleed, and surveys show that
the majority of vulnerable systems are already fixed.
(I fixed mine last Tuesday.)

Pick of the week

pyvideo.org – PyCon US 2014
> PyCon is the largest annual gathering for the community using and developing the open-source Python programming language. It is produced and underwritten by the Python Software Foundation

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Code Your Enthusiasm | CR 78

chris — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 13:56:43 +0000

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It’s a mailbag special with a hidden message. Mike and Chris discuss burnout a bit more, the pitfalls of bad Q&A, automated UI testing, and the open source projects we’re thankful for this year.

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Burned by Agile | CR 76

chris — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 12:43:50 +0000

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Burnout kills your productivity, creativity, and ability to get things done. The worst part? It can sneak up in different ways. Mike and Chris share how to recognize burnout, a quick fix to get you through, and their personal long term fixes.

Plus a great batch of emails, setting your weekend rate, and much more.

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Mike’s Done Again

Chris’ diagnoses of Mike’s burnout.

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Risky Business | CR 43

chris — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:01:56 +0000

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The Play Framework has been on Mike’s mind a lot recently. Also known as JavaPlay, an easy way to build web applications with Java and Scala. This week Mike shares what started out as a grand idea, but developed into a major reboot and overhaul of the project.

And why in the end, no matter what platform, software stack, or store you choose or avoid is always a risky choice.

Plus: How to bounce back from burnout, find new motivation, and get started.

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Burn Baby Burnout | CR 16

chris — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:28:23 +0000

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Mike and Chris tackle the challenges of burnout, the signs of approaching discontent, the issues that can aggravate it, and what you can do to combat burnout and get back to work.

Plus we answer some of your questions, ask if its no big deal that iOS 6 is more evolution than revolution, and much more!

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Tushar writes in with some Ubuntu stability woes.
Jay writes explaining that Coder Radio has gotten him to abandon his evil app pirating ways! But, he still won’t pay more than one dollar for an app.
Matt as a solution to the GRUB issue I’ve seen in the past

This Week’s Dev World Hoopla

Jeremy Kahn’s Developers vs. Engineers vc. Scientists

iOS 6 New Stuff!

Evolution rather than revolution.

Burnout

What is burnout?
Signs of burnout
The disposable geek mentality
How does this happen?

My Burnout Cures

See real (non-digital)people
Gaming
Get away from the computer.

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