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- Hiring Engineers with Ammon Bartram“Humans are the most complicated thing out there – judging human skill is extremely hard, there’s all kinds of ways that people can be good.”
Triplebyte is a technical hiring platform that vets engineers using a comprehensive evaluation platform and connects them to companies that are interesting in hiring them. Triplebyte was part of the Y Combinator summer class of 2015.
Ammon Bartram is the Chief Data Officer and cofounder of Triplebyte. Previously, Ammon was lead video developer at Justin.tv and also cofounded SocialCam.
Questions- Why are programming job interviews broken?
- Who do Y Combinator companies want to hire?
- Why do companies seem to prefer engineers with product experience over academic experience?
- Are there any markers we can rely on for hiring?
- How do you scale such a labor-intensive process like hiring?
- What is one piece of advice you would give to companies to improve their hiring process?
- What’s the best way for a candidate to hack the system?
Links- Who Y Combinator Companies Want
- The Stanford Prison Experiment
- Triplebyte
- Ammon on Twitter
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59 min - Hiring Engineers with Ammon Bartram“Humans are the most complicated thing out there – judging human skill is extremely hard, there’s all kinds of ways that people can be good.” Triplebyte is a technical hiring platform that vets engineers using a comprehensive evaluation platform and connects them to companies that are interesting in hiring them. Triplebyte was part of the Y Combinator summer class of 2015. Ammon Bartram is the Chief Data Officer and cofounderContinue reading...1 hr
- Knowledge-Based Programming with Stephen Wolfram“The cloud as an environment – I had thought it was a purely utilitarian kind of thing. What I realized is that it’s a fascinating centralized repository of computation.”
Wolfram Research makes computing software powered by the Wolfram language, a knowledge-based programming language that draws from symbolic and functional programming paradigms.
Stephen Wolfram is the Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, and also the author of A New Kind of Science.
Questions- What inspired you to start Wolfram Research?
- What is the Wolfram language?
- How does the Wolfram language benefit from thinking of itself as a functional language?
- How are your different pieces of software wired through the Wolfram language?
- What is your book A New Kind of Science about?
- Are we living in a simulation?
- Is fear of AI a legitimate concern, and if so what preventative measures can we take?
Links- Wolfram Research
- Mathematica: what is symbolic programming?
- A New Kind of Science
- Stephen on Twitter
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1 hr 20 min - Knowledge-Based Programming with Stephen Wolfram“The cloud as an environment – I had thought it was a purely utilitarian kind of thing. What I realized is that it’s a fascinating centralized repository of computation.”Wolfram Research makes computing software powered by the Wolfram language, a knowledge-based programming language that draws from symbolic and functional programming paradigms.Continue reading…1 hr 21 min
- Treehouse with Ryan Carson“[As adults] we get overly serious, and a lot of the fun goes out of learning, so I think what we’re trying to do is make Treehouse delightful.”
Treehouse is an online school that teaches software development, design and strategy.
Ryan Carson is the CEO and Founder of Treehouse.
Questions- What did the online software education space look like when you started Treehouse in 2011?
- Is there a community aspect to Treehouse?
- What was the state of web development when you began Treehouse, and where is it going?
- Why did Treehouse at one point have no managers in the company?
- What will the Treehouse Data Science curriculum look like?
- What is the moonshot goal of Treehouse?
Links- Treehouse
- Manager Tools Podcast
- The Naive Optimist
- Ryan on Twitter
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42 min - Treehouse with Ryan Carson“[As adults] we get overly serious, and a lot of the fun goes out of learning, so I think what we’re trying to do is make Treehouse delightful.”Continue reading…43 min
- Poker to Programming with Haseeb Qureshi“If I was trying to learn coding on my own, to the level that App Academy was able to teach me, it definitely would have taken me significantly longer.”
Haseeb Qureshi is an former high-stakes poker player who pivoted to web development. He is an instructor at App Academy in San Francisco.
Questions- How did you transition from poker to programming?
- Were to drawn to programming because of the flow state?
- What happens on day one of a coding bootcamp?
- Why does App Academy teach Ruby on Rails?
- How did you transition from student to instructor at App Academy?
- Why do people get imposter syndrome?
Links- Effective Altruism
- Cracking the Coding Bootcamp – The Definitive Guide
- App Academy
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1 hr 1 min - Poker to Programming with Haseeb Qureshi“If I was trying to learn coding on my own, to the level that App Academy was able to teach me, it definitely would have taken me significantly longer.”Continue reading…1 hr 2 min
- Automating the CS Classroom with Prah VeluvoluMimir is a platform that helps schools scale up their computer science program.
It provides automated code grading, plagiarism checking, code quality analysis and additional course management tools.
Prah Veluvolu is the CEO and Co-founder of Mimir. He studied at Purdue University and participated in the Boiler Startup Accelerator before graduating from the Y Combinator Summer 2015 class.
Questions- Why did you start Mimir?
- What are the pain points when using PHP and the LAMP stack?
- Can you describe the process of migrating from PHP to Rails?
- How are computer science teachers responding to this product?
- How valuable has the Y Combinator network been?
- What is an engineering challenge you’re working on right now?
Links- Mimir
- Moss Plagiarism Checker
- Amazon Machine Learning
- Piazza Q&A Platform
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51 min - Automating the CS Classroom with Prah VeluvoluMimir is a platform that helps schools scale up their computer science program. It provides automated code grading, plagiarism checking, code quality analysis and additional course management tools.Continue reading…51 min
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