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Re: Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?

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Post by anton_gogolev »

WildUtah wrote: post #108
anton_gogolev wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In all honesty, Siracusa is, well, the only guy worth listening to in this particular podcast. Occasional smart comments by two other co-hosts are drowned in an overall sea of mediocre insight or factual errors.

Nonsense. Marco may be frivolous and scatter-brained but the man has some serious brain power. He's a very effective duck tape programmer and does some hard algorithm work along with serious UI polishing. There aren't many millionaire independent programmers who succeed based on the quality of their programming without much business and marketing acumen, but Marco shows it can be done. Casey is a fine straight man.

I never questioned intelligence levels of any of the hosts. It's just that John is infinitely more entertaining, informative and insightful; Marco and Casey are often out of their depths on many subjects.

Re: Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?

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Post by aesthetics1 »

yitchelle wrote: post #51
codezero wrote: post #48

I really enjoy Reply All, it's not technical, but is more about Internet culture. http://gimletmedia.com/show/reply-all/

Their podcast during the initial phases of building up the company is also worth listening to. http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/ The on-the-fly pseudo-pitch that Chris Sacca did in the 1st episode is a gem.

I also thought this was a great listen. Season 2 - not so much. I feel like they really dove too far into the back-and-forth between the founders and I personally find it much less interesting.

Re: Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?

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Post by phantarch »

Cortex [1] is a case study of the workflow of CGP Grey, who makes really great YouTube videos that the HN community would probably enjoy. It's slated for 10 episodes, and currently episode 5 has just been released.

I also really like Hello Internet [2], which is done by a couple of guys who make YouTube videos for a living. Usually not super tech-oriented, but they almost always have interesting discussions. It's a fun podcast.

[1] https://www.relay.fm/cortex

[2] http://www.hellointernet.fm/

Re: Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?

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Post by kasbah »

My podcast subscriptions:

General interest, science, philosophy, design and architecture:

* Radiolab: http://radiolab.org

* 99 Percent Invisible: http://99percentinvisible.org

Embedded systems/electronics:

* Sparkgap, focused on a specific technical topic each episode, sometimes with guests. http://thesparkgap.net

* Embedded.fm, focusued on technical and non-technical topics surrounding embedded systems software development but also often links with art and education, often with guests. http://embedded.fm

* AmpHour: Dave Jones and Chris Gammel ranting about whatever they feel like fairly often with guests. http://theamphour.com

Re: Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?

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Post by hluska »

dcraw wrote: post #110

Plugging my own relatively new podcast, Theory and Craft ( http://www.theoryandcraft.fm ) Each episode we take a paper or topic from the research world and discuss how it applies to us as practicing software engineers. Somewhat inspired by Adrian Colyer's Morning Paper ( http://blog.acolyer.org/ ). I'm also a big fan of: * http://www.se-radio.net/ - hour-long interviews with solid guests * http://giantrobots.fm/ - pr…

Theory and Craft sounds good. I need my brain now, but I'll give it a listen later on. Good job!!

Edit - The irony of typing "I need my brain now" while I'm hanging out on Hacker News (and getting nothing done) is not lost on me...:)

Re: Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?

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Post by aksx »

anton_gogolev wrote: post #111
WildUtah wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nonsense. Marco may be frivolous and scatter-brained but the man has some serious brain power. He's a very effective duck tape programmer and does some hard algorithm work along with serious UI polishing. There aren't many millionaire independent programmers who succeed based on the quality of their programming without much business and marketing acumen, but Marco shows it can be done. Casey is a fine straight man.

I never questioned intelligence levels of any of the hosts. It's just that John is infinitely more entertaining, informative and insightful; Marco and Casey are often out of their depths on many subjects.

I like to listen to Marco's point of view of the tech world, being a successful independent developer his (conservative) opinions on languages and platforms are always insightful.

Re: Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?

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Post by it_learnses »

boothead wrote: post #84

I'm really getting a lot out of Tim Ferriss' podcast http://fourhourworkweek.com/podcast/ lately. Especially the episodes with Kelly Starrett, Josh Waitzkin, Sam Harris, Peter Attia, Pavel Tsatsouline and Whitney Cummings. I think at a certain point you start to recognize that more tech isn't helping as much as it was (diminishing returns perhaps) and that a more holistic approach to improving is necessary.

Can you list a few examples of things you have learned or been enlightened about?
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