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“I think that anybody who’s not using universal JavaScript is wasting a ton of time and a ton of money, and it’s just a silly thing to do.” Eric Elliott is a JavaScript advocate, and the author of Programming JavaScript Applications. He is also an entrepreneur tackling social issues including homelessness and inequality in the tech industry. Questions Why will not knowing programming be akin to illiteracy in the future?Continue reading...

“Part of the point of Tessel is that it just works – you don’t have to worry about it. Much in the way that you would throw your app up on Heroku.” Tessel is an open-source microcontroller that is programmable in JavaScript and compatible with Node.js. Kelsey Breseman is a hardware engineer and Steering Committee Member on the Tessel Project. Questions What is the origin story of Tessel? Tessel runsContinue reading...

“Systems are giving up correctness for latency, and I’m arguing that stream processing systems have to be designed to allow the user to pick the tradeoffs that the application needs."

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“We’re not in the business of taking tuition, we’re in the business of getting people jobs.”

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“You’ve listened to podcasts where you gotta fast forward 8-9 minutes in before the actual meat happens.”

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“You don’t mind if failures slow things down, but its very important that failures do not stop forward progress.”

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“Software engineering projects don’t fail because of a lack of technical ability, they fail because of a lack of communication.”

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“I would say that the vast majority of people see programming more as a science. But to get the best work out of yourself, you have to be thinking from an artistic perspective. So it makes sense to make your north star, as an engineer, some sort of artistic goal.”

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“I normally try to sit together or very close to a product team or engineering team. And by doing so, I get very close to the source of all kinds of challenging problems.”

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“The three legs of the stool are culture, process, and tooling, and I think process and tooling are the easy ones.”

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