Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video] • Hacker News Board

Re: Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video]

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Post by carterdmorgan » Wed, Jul 10, 2024, 9:45 PM UTC

zombiwoof wrote: post #10

I wish interviewing now was more about knowing the concepts in that book versus leetcode Brian Kernighan prob couldn’t pass a leetcode hard interview in this ridiculous new world

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 forked the Jackson Java library, introduced a bug, and then asked me to find and fix it. Pretty unique style, but much more applicable to the actual job of programming.

Re: Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video]

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Post by dinkumthinkum » Wed, Jul 10, 2024, 10:00 PM UTC

carterdmorgan wrote: post #3

fuzztester wrote: post #2

I'm only one third of the way through the video, but could see that the podcasters are asking some good insightful questions. Thanks for sharing, OP.

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.

I found your podcast a few days ago on a different book. Keep it up, I think you have a good niche and doing something you rarely see, which are deep dives on programming books. The only other one I really know of is Connor Hoekstra has a couple nice playlists on SICP and something else but this is a little different, good job.

Re: Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video]

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Post by carterdmorgan » Wed, Jul 10, 2024, 10:05 PM UTC

dinkumthinkum wrote: post #12

carterdmorgan wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I found your podcast a few days ago on a different book. Keep it up, I think you have a good niche and doing something you rarely see, which are deep dives on programming books. The only other one I really know of is Connor Hoekstra has a couple nice playlists on SICP and something else but this is a little different, good job.

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 don’t provide comprehensive reviews, but rather just highlight what we found the most interesting, while trying to keep it substantive.

Re: Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video]

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Post by opello » Wed, Jul 10, 2024, 11:35 PM UTC

A nice value in this format (since it discusses books) would be to have a comment or portion of the description dedicated to listing the books (or ideally the media) discussed to a list.

I added "The Bit Player" (Claude Shannon documentary from 2018) to my watch list as well as "Recoding America," "Chip War," and "Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage" to my reading list.

Re: Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video]

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Post by carterdmorgan » Wed, Jul 10, 2024, 11:38 PM UTC

opello wrote: post #14

A nice value in this format (since it discusses books) would be to have a comment or portion of the description dedicated to listing the books (or ideally the media) discussed to a list. I added "The Bit Player" (Claude Shannon documentary from 2018) to my watch list as well as "Recoding America," "Chip War," and "Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage" to my reading list.

What do you mean by this exactly? Like a list of all upcoming books we’ll discuss? If you’re curious, you can find that on our website at www.bookoverflow.io!

Re: Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video]

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Post by farleykr » Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 12:08 AM UTC

carterdmorgan wrote: post #15

opello wrote: post #14

A nice value in this format (since it discusses books) would be to have a comment or portion of the description dedicated to listing the books (or ideally the media) discussed to a list. I added "The Bit Player" (Claude Shannon documentary from 2018) to my watch list as well as "Recoding America," "Chip War," and "Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage" to my reading list.

What do you mean by this exactly? Like a list of all upcoming books we’ll discuss? If you’re curious, you can find that on our website at www.bookoverflow.io!

I think they mean that the description of the episode should have a list of books (and maybe other resources) that were mentioned in the episode itself.

Re: Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video]

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Post by carterdmorgan » Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 12:10 AM UTC

farleykr wrote: post #16

carterdmorgan wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean by this exactly? Like a list of all upcoming books we’ll discuss? If you’re curious, you can find that on our website at www.bookoverflow.io!

I think they mean that the description of the episode should have a list of books (and maybe other resources) that were mentioned in the episode itself.

Oh yeah, that’s a good idea. We’ll have to do that. We’ve been debating setting up Amazon affiliate links to the books in the episode descriptions. We were going to wait until we were a little bigger, but after today we might have to speed up those conversations, haha.

Re: Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video]

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Post by 256_ » Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 12:12 AM UTC

I read the Elements of Programming Style and the Practice of Programming around the same time and they became completely mixed up in my mind. I'll often remember something from one of those books but be completely unable to remember which one it was from.

Both good books, and both were co-authored by Kernighan. I think they complement each other well.

Re: Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video]

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Post by opello » Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 12:14 AM UTC

farleykr wrote: post #16

carterdmorgan wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean by this exactly? Like a list of all upcoming books we’ll discuss? If you’re curious, you can find that on our website at www.bookoverflow.io!

I think they mean that the description of the episode should have a list of books (and maybe other resources) that were mentioned in the episode itself.

This exactly, yes, thank you. Sorry for being vague.

Re: Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video]

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Post by carterdmorgan » Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 12:18 AM UTC

256_ wrote: post #18

I read the Elements of Programming Style and the Practice of Programming around the same time and they became completely mixed up in my mind. I'll often remember something from one of those books but be completely unable to remember which one it was from. Both good books, and both were co-authored by Kernighan. I think they complement each other well.

We might have to add Elements of Programming Style to our backlog.