Joe Rogan interviewed John Carmack. Does that count?
Ask HN: Who is the Joe Rogan of coding?
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Re: Ask HN: Who is the Joe Rogan of coding?
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sure. Honestly a right wing hack that spreads vaccine misinformation and ivermectin as the only true covid cure is the opposite of what I want in a programming podcast.
Well if that's all you reduce Rogan down to, then sure . But it would totally ignore why so many people tune in to his show.
Rogan is entertaining, like a drunk guy at a party. And his content is generally useless, for the same reason.
Re: Ask HN: Who is the Joe Rogan of coding?
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well if that's all you reduce Rogan down to, then sure . But it would totally ignore why so many people tune in to his show.
Rogan is entertaining, like a drunk guy at a party. And his content is generally useless, for the same reason.
I guess it depends on how you look at it.
I discovered interesting people like Lex Friedman, Sean Caroll, Eric Weinstein, through Rogan's show.
Granted, I don't watch JRE anymore but back when I did I found it to be a gateway to people I might not have discovered otherwise. To me that was useful.
Re: Ask HN: Who is the Joe Rogan of coding?
#14I find Changelog podcasts (https://changelog.com/podcasts) very high quality.
Some examples:
- Richard Hipp (SQLite creator) (https://changelog.com/podcast/454)
- Co-founder of Cockroach Labs (Massive scale and ultra-resilience)
Re: Ask HN: Who is the Joe Rogan of coding?
#15What does that even mean?
I believe they mean someone with the charisma and depth to give great interviews with many interesting people but specifically in this case, people that code. Much of Joe's audience would tune out after a few minutes of coding discussion. So in this case, an interviewer that can pull in some of the top developers from around the world and be able to carry on interesting conversations with them that would draw in an a…
>charisma and depth
Are we watching the same person? I like Rogan's interviews, but he draws out good content by being dopey and asking simple questions, not by being charismatic and deep.
Re: Ask HN: Who is the Joe Rogan of coding?
#16Casey Muratori and Jonathan Blow have done a lot of in-depth speaking about video game programming.
Re: Ask HN: Who is the Joe Rogan of coding?
#17Re: Ask HN: Who is the Joe Rogan of coding?
#18Shawn Swyx Wang has been doing some fantastic interviews with various web dev engineers in his "Swyx Mixtape Podcast" series:
Re: Ask HN: Who is the Joe Rogan of coding?
#19This doesn't really answer the question, but if you touch on PHP the PHP Internals podcast can be very informative. A lot of interviews of the people writing the RFCs for the next versions. And the host is the creator/maintainer of XDebug.
Re: Ask HN: Who is the Joe Rogan of coding?
#20Lex Fridman. At first I thought, who is this unheralded plebe and how is he getting famous people to talk to him? Turns out he's thoughtful, oddly charismatic, sufficiently smart, and most importantly, non-cringey.
> At first I thought, who is this unheralded plebe and how is he getting famous people to talk to him?
Not to take anything away from Fridman (he's great!), but I'd imagine being a research scientist at MIT probably helps a lot with that. :-)