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Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages [audio]

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Re: Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages [audio]

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I've never felt that Lex's interviewing was so poor that it was a reason not to listen to one of his interviews. He still gets interesting people to talk about interesting things. Yes, amazing guest list, I do wonder how it took off like that. Edit: in contrast, Rob Reid's After On podcast has somewhat similar guests (not an all-stars list, no AI folks except Stuart Russell & Rodney Brooks), but he's my favourite int…

That can be said the same with Guy Raz. I highly recommend everyone to give How I Built This a listen.

I’m a fan of the show for the guests but not the interviews, if that makes any sense. He asks questions that are too general. I never get a sense from the episodes of what it’s actually like to run the business. I never get an understanding of what are the important things in their industry. It’s too much “aw shucks” this hard personal thing happened and you overcame it. Which is fine on its own, but I want to learn about business on a business show.

Re: Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages [audio]

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Every time I run across an episode of this podcast I need to weigh in my interest in a great guest versus having to listen to Lex's monotone voice and meaning-of-life type questions. The disparity is amazing - the list of guests is easily the best out of any podcast that has guests that I've ever come across; and the delivery of the host is just about the worst I've come across too. I guess I'll listen to this one.

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Re: Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages [audio]

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Lex is great at bringing the conversation down to a more accessible level for people. He isn't doing a presentation at a technical conference. It's a combination of entertainment and insight into how the interviewee thinks. In a way someone that is technical, but not necessarily a super engineer, can resonate with. He speaking style can throw people off. I'm pretty sure I have heard this style from other eastern Euro…

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Re: Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages [audio]

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Early in the interview Lattner does a great job of selling Swift. Value types (with copy on write), progressive disclosure, ... I think Swift is a great language but the lack of cross platform development is holding it back.

I don't know Swift at all. But I know what progressive disclosure is. Could you explain a bit what you mean for a programming language to have progressive disclosure, and how specifically Swift does that?

Re: Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages [audio]

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(@dang) Other discussion about the same episode here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24823764

That discussion only has complaints about the interviewing style. This discussion has a few comments about the substance. Not many, but more than none.

Re: Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages [audio]

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I hope Lex stays this way. The only interview podcast I know of where most of the focus is on the guest. The way he talks, listens and follow up on what the guest says lets me fully engage in the thoughts of the interviewee.

If you are interested in something similar that focuses more on engineering and science and goes far more in depth then I highly suggest Omega Tau ( http://omegataupodcast.net/category/podcast-en/ ) by far the best podcast I have ever found.

Just scanned the topics, this looks great to me, thanks for sharing it.

Re: Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages [audio]

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I've never felt that Lex's interviewing was so poor that it was a reason not to listen to one of his interviews. He still gets interesting people to talk about interesting things. Yes, amazing guest list, I do wonder how it took off like that. Edit: in contrast, Rob Reid's After On podcast has somewhat similar guests (not an all-stars list, no AI folks except Stuart Russell & Rodney Brooks), but he's my favourite int…

Lex is a good interviewer, he's thoughtful and goes into depth. I've enjoyed many of his interviews. It's like he's a more stoic version of Joe Rogan. Some of his guests, however, are a very bad choice. In particular I am thinking of Eric Weinstein who has been on TWICE. Weinstein is a master-class bullshtter, who opines on his theory of everything yet has NOTHING to show for it. He also manages to pull in politics,…

Someone in another comment compared Lex to Joe Rogan, and I think that comparison is apt. He is only as interesting as his guest's ability to break out of the box his questions put them into. And just like Rogan, Fridman has a very questionable set of guests which he doesn't truly challenge at any point in the conversation.

Re: Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages [audio]

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I think it's more that he puts in the work (doing and promoting the podcast) and he manages to get great guests.

It doesn’t hurt that his father is a highly respected plasma scientist—a small but not insignificant factor in his ability to land great guests. https://drexel.edu/engineering/news-events/news/archive/2019...

This is not why he gets these guests. Lex is very famous in his own right. His episodes on Joe Rogan's podcast are some of the most popular he's put out. He's a well respected researcher in his own right. Chris Lattner did not go on this podcast because Lex's dad is a physicist.

Re: Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages [audio]

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Every time I run across an episode of this podcast I need to weigh in my interest in a great guest versus having to listen to Lex's monotone voice and meaning-of-life type questions. The disparity is amazing - the list of guests is easily the best out of any podcast that has guests that I've ever come across; and the delivery of the host is just about the worst I've come across too. I guess I'll listen to this one.

Gotta be hush hush with these comments, I think most long term listeners who have a science background will agree with you here, but before you know it you'll be banned by him
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