
Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots
A podcast about the design, development, and business of great software. Each week thoughtbot is joined by the people who build and nurture the products we love.
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Nov 18, 2013 • 31min
75: Embedding Democracy (Catherine Bracy)
This week Ben Orenstein interviews Catherine Bracy, Director of Community Organizing at Code for America.
Catherine Bracy's Twitter
Code for America
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Nov 11, 2013 • 32min
74: Fancy Scala (Sean Griffin)
Ben Orenstein speaks with thoughtbot developer Sean Griffin about scala and ruby.
Sean Griffin's Twitter
Understanding Computation Tom Stuart
Scala Website
Martin Odersky's Free Class
Programming Scala
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Nov 4, 2013 • 33min
73: Spooky Robots Haunting other Spooky Robots (Drew Neil)
Ben Orenstein speaks with Drew Neil, creator of vimcasts.org about teaching writing and workshopping vim.
Vimcasts
Practical Vim: Edit at the Speed of Thought
Drew Neil's Twitter
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Oct 28, 2013 • 33min
72: Up in the Mountains (Nathan Barry)
This week on The Giant Robots Podcast, Ben Orenstein chats with Nathan Barry about book writing, teaching and self employment.
Nathan's Twitter
Nathan's Website
The App Design Handbook
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Oct 21, 2013 • 40min
71: The Power of the Truth
Josh Clayton and Ben Orenstein interview each other about their managing director positions.
Ben Orenstein's Twitter
Josh Clayton's Twitter
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Oct 14, 2013 • 40min
70: Let Your Freak Flag Fly
Ben Orenstein speaks with Jeff Atwood about Discourse, forum software, and soylent.
Coding Horror
StackExchange
Discourse.org
discourse.soylent.me
Jeff Atwood's Twitter
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Oct 7, 2013 • 15min
69: Geocoding in the Now
Ben Orenstein interviews Josh Clayton and Laila Winner on their book, Geocoding on Rails.
Geocoding on Rails
Josh Clayton's Twitter
Laila Winner's Github
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Sep 30, 2013 • 34min
68: Simplicity and Elegance
Ben Orenstein and Paul Farnell, CEO of Litmus, talk about starting up, business practices, and Litmus.
Paul Farnell's Twitter
Litmus
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Sep 23, 2013 • 30min
67: The Data Optimist
Ben Orenstein and Hilary Mason, Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners, talk about Data Science, Bitly and Cheeseburgers.
rt.ly search engine
OkCupid Blog
hackNY
DataGotham
NYC Resister
Hilary Mason's Personal Website
Hilary Mason on Twitter
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Sep 16, 2013 • 40min
66: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
Ben talks with Anthony Eden about DNSimple, programming languages and code retreats.
dnsimple
Anthony Eden's Twitter
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