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Re: Ask HN: Favorite podcasts?

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Post by joshdotsmith »

We're launching a podcast next month about programming and technical topics for non-technical people: http://www.talkingcode.com/

Our favorite interview so far (feels like picking your favorite kid!) has been with Sandi Metz, partly because it's so funny to me to have discussed object-oriented design for a non-technical audience. But she had some tremendous, actionable insights for people who want to know how software works without knowing how to write it.

I'm hoping we can bridge the gap a little bit. Ideally, if a non-technical friend or colleague asked me – "hey, what is continuous deployment, anyway?" – I would point them here for an approachable 30,000 foot view. We have a lot of work to do to get there, though.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite podcasts?

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Post by yoklov »

The Jeff and Casey show is probably my favorite: http://mollyrocket.com/jacs/index.html. It's hosted by the owner/founder of Rad Game Tools and one of their (now ex-) programmers (who has recently had minor fame as the host of handmade hero).

Typically the episodes aren't about programming, although they do frequently discuss tech topics.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite podcasts?

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Post by teh_klev »

evanb wrote: post #81

Podcasts I think of as entertainment: * The Mortified Podcast http://getmortified.com/ * Serial http://serialpodcast.org/ * True Story http://truestorytime.org/ * The Tobolowsky Files http://www.slashfilm.com/category/features/slashfilmcast/the... * StoryCorps http://storycorps.org/podcast/ * The Moth http://feeds.themoth.org/themothpodcast * The Story Collider http://storycollider.org/podcast * NPR Sunday Puzzle htt…

Would definitely recommend "In Our Time", it's amazing the broad range of stuff they cover from science, philosophy, religion and beyond. I've been mining their back catalogue, there's some truly fascinating topics discussed.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite podcasts?

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Post by mintplant »

tomkinstinch wrote: post #14

I get enough tech in my daily life, so I look to podcasts to enrich my life in other dimensions and teach me new things. Here are some of my favorites: * Cooking, food, and molecular gastronomy; Cooking Issues: http://www.heritageradionetwork.org/programs/51-Cooking-Issu... * Outdoor adventure; Dirtbag Diaries: http://dirtbagdiaries.com * Music and poetic music breakdown (uniquely well-suited to audio as a medium); S…

If you like horror, you might be interested The NoSleep Podcast: readings of the cream of the crop of short stories from reddit's NoSleep forum. Really good voices and sound design, and it won a Parsec Award for speculative fiction in 2014.

http://thenosleeppodcast.com/

Re: Ask HN: Favorite podcasts?

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Post by anateus »

wwweston wrote: post #45
cromulent wrote: post #18

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. Here's a good starting point: http://dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-41-thors-angel...

I've heard Carlin's podcast recommended several times, but latel I'm tired of history that primarily gives me a finished narrative, andam interested more in finding accounts where they spend a lot of time discussing sources (e.g., I'm less excited about hearing about Ben Franklin's life than I might be about the letters of Ben Franklin). How does Hardcore Hisotry stack up in this regard?

Not a podcast, but I found many of the history courses on The Great Courses series (which is now available on Audible) are like what you desire. Not all of them are, but it's usually possible to tell based on the description.
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