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This week Ben sits down with Chas Emerick to discuss his latest venture, The Quilt Project, start up philosophies and the importance of balanced time management. 100% Time Clojure Programming: Practical Lisp for the Java World The Quilt Project PDF TextStream Rich Hickey's Ant Simulator Von Neumann architecture heaven forfend Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

Ben is joined by Diana & Jessie of thoughtbot San Francisco to discuss their latest book, iOS on Rails, the concept of releasing a book in Beta and the importance of apprenticeships to emerging junior developers. iOS on Rails Roy Fielding Ray Wenderlich iPhone Tutorials Flinto Diana on Twitter Jessie on Twitter Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

On this weeks show Ben talks to David Nolen, Rails & JavaScript developer for the NY Times, about being a steward of ClojureScript, functional programming, the advantages of immutable values and Om. David Nolen ClojureScript React Kitchen Table Coders: The Immutable Stack David on Twitter iOS on Rails (Beta) Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

Ben and Ryan Hoover, co-creator of Product Hunt, talk revenue models, the value of blogging, diversification of skills, and tiny steps towards major change. Tradecraft: Training people to succeed in traction roles at high-growth startups Product Hunt: A daily leaderboard of the best new products Knowing When It's Time To Move On Don't Learn To Code BJ Fogg- Tiny Habits method Ryan on Twitter Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

This week on Giant Robots, Ben talks to Rich Thornett, Co-Founder of Dribbble, about the formation and criticisms of the company, the role of product design and remote team management. dribbble Rich on Twitter Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

Ben talks to George Brocklehurst & Mike Burns of thoughtbot's Stockholm office on creating and distributing gitsh, an interactive shell for Git, and why it shouldn't be a Ruby gem. Get Gitsh Stockholm Vim Haskell Stockholm Classical Code Reading Group Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

This week on Giant Robots, Mahmoud Abdelkader of Balanced joins Ben to talk the priorities in ones career trajectory, the role of a successful CTO, and the benefits of radically open transparency. Balanced What Does Balanced Do? Balanced Github Balanced Cookbooks Mahmoud on Twitter Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

This week Ben Talks with Kyle Bragger of Elepath, Inc on the nature of online community building, advertising vs subscription revenue models and the importance of continued creative output (and actually releasing it to the world). Elepath, Inc Exposure Mauerpark Karaoke Forrst Drew Wilson Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

This week on Giant Robots, Ben chats with Tony DiPasquale on utilizing Arduino engineering to solve 0th world problems. Arduino Home Page Original Bathroom Occupancy Proof of Concept Breakdown Full Low Power Custom Arduino Sensor Board Instructions! Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

In this week's episode, we're joined by Peter Reinhardt, Co-founder and CEO of Segment.io. Ben and Peter discuss the product, their tech stack, the companies big pivot to Segment.io, their growth and future plans. They also discuss leaving MIT to start a company, getting along with your co-founders, nuclear reactors, hiking, and much more. Segment.io node.js Express.js Thorium reactors Molten salt reactor Norway diving board rock, Trolltunga Follow @thoughtbot, @r00k, and @reinpk on twitter.Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots