The Stack Overflow Podcast

The gang tries to give tech support to Grandma Maebeline. It doesn't go well.

In this week's episode, Mazin Gilbert - VP of AT&T Labs Advanced Technology - joins us. The gang talks about the Amazon S3 outage as well as about an AI that's learned how to copy/paste code, just like a real developer! Finally, Joel provides tech support to Grandma Maebeline.

Welcome to the Stack Overflow Podcast #103, recorded Thursday March 2, 2017 at the Stack Overflow HQ in NYC. Today's podcast is brought to you by tree people, Purim, and She Geeks Out.

In today's thrilling episode:

Jay is back from vacation, so of course he and Joel have to talk about toilets for way too long (consider yourself warned).

Joel (pictured below) rants about the Oscars. 

OMTR - Joel loves the Spark email app from Readdle.

Listener questions are back!

The gang helps an old lady with her email troubles.

AWS went down! Was it Jeff Bezos' fault? No, no it wasn't…

AI learns to copy and paste code, just like a real dev.

Today's developer story is Dr Mazin Gilbert, Vice President of Advanced Technology at AT&T Labs. He is here to talk about his long career at AT&T, as well as The ONAP Project and the future of the software industry. Dr Gilbert has been at the forefront of computer neural networks since the early 90's when he was trying to answer the question, "How do you get computers to speak like humans?" Simple, right?

As you know, we are preparing a constitution for Stack Overflow! This week's question: If you are making a sandwich for yourself, do you cut it in half? PRO = Yes and CON = No.

Post your answer to Twitter using the Hashtag #stackoverflowpodcast, with either PRO or CON and your short but meaty explanation in 140 characters or less. The best explanation, whether on the winning side or the losing side, will be read on next week’s podcast and win a fabulous STACK OVERFLOW STICKER courtesy of the Stack Overflow Podcast.

Also, you can submit your ideas for future constitutional amendments on Twitter using #StackOverflowPodcast, and one of them might be named after you.

Last week’s winner for the Constitutional question, "PRO or CON: Should you be limited to 50 character commit messages?" is @tzachzohar:

https://twitter.com/tzachzohar/status/836312266995863554

Interested in what Mazin is working on? Further reading can be found here:

Linux Foundation ONAP Announcement

Opening Up ECOMP: Our Network Operating System for SDN and accompanying Video

Celebrating 60 Years of AI: Where Will It Take Us Next?

Podcast links:

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Our website is now live: http://stackoverflow.com/podcast

In this week's episode (with only a brief IT interlude), the gang talks about the Dell XPS-13, Macbook Pro touch bars, and ugh, Uber… And our special guest this week is Erica Brescia, co-founder and COO at Bitnami. She speaks to us about her passion for dev tools as well as the challenges of being a predominantly remote company (something that Stack Overflow knows a little bit about).

Welcome to the Stack Overflow Podcast #102 recorded Thursday, February 23, 2017 at the Stack Overflow HQ in NYC. Today's podcast is brought to you by rogue cows and SHA-1. SHA-1: You can depend on it.

Topics discussed this week (with only minor IT interruptions) include the Dell XPS-13, Macbook Pro touch bars, and ugh, Uber…

Our special guest this week is Erica Brescia, co-founder and COO at Bitnami. She speaks to us about her passion for dev tools as well as the challenges of being a predominantly remote company (something that SO knows a little bit about). Also, castle retreats? Yes please.

In our ongoing commitment to drafting the Stack Overflow Constitution, this week's amendment proposal comes from David: PRO or CON: Should you have a 50 character max for the first line of your commit message?

Listen to the hosts' thoughts and then post your answer to Twitter using the Hashtag #StackOverflowPodcast with either PRO (in 50 characters or less!) or CON (using up to 140 characters).

The best explanation, whether on the winning side or the losing side, will be read on next week's podcast and win a fabulous STACK OVERFLOW STICKER courtesy of the Stack Overflow Podcast. Also, please submit your ideas for future constitutional amendments on Twitter using #StackOverflowPodcast, and one of them might be named after you.

Last week's winner for the question: "PRO or CON: If you are frequently switching back and forth between Macintosh and Windows, should you remap the COMMAND and the ALT key and vice/versa?" is Daniel Allan White:

"CON. We CTRL our minds to adapt to the ALT keyboard layouts since there is no ESC from other machines in the world." - @TheTrueAPlus

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Links:

More from Erica Brescia: * Kubeapps.com - Sign up for free! * Bitnami.com * Twitter: @ericabrescia

This week, Nick Craver wasn't available. So we decided to Stump Alex Miller. Will he win a fantastic prize?

In this week's episode, Matt Mullenweg of WordPress joins us to tell us how he built the organization that powers 27% of the internet and more importantly, what it was like going to the same high school as Beyoncé. The gang also tells us why the site nav changed colors. We also learn what programming languages are used on the weekends most and what programming languages college students use the most. Finally, Joel tries to Stump Alex Miller while the TSA watches.

Welcome to the Stack Overflow Podcast #101. Fact: We now have as many episodes as we have adorable Disney dalmatians. Today's podcast is brought to you by the WordPress Development Stack Exchange.

Our very special guest today is Matt Mullenweg. Matt is the co-founder WordPress, which powers 27% of the internet, and the founder & CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, and Jetpack. And in addition to everything else he's juggling, Matt recently helped migrate Joel On Software.

The gang also talks about...

why we decided to make a slick new site navigation and color change. tl;dr we wanted to recycle all the white site nav pixels GitHub was just throwing away.

how college students use Stack Overflow.

what programming languages are used most on weekends.

whether or not they'll watch Apple's first original content for Apple TV, "Planet of the Apps," which appears to be a mix of Shark Tank, The Voice, and free App Store marketing.

programmers racing to save climate data from being purged from government servers.

Joel's One Minute Tech Review of MRI machines. Short story: The acoustics are awful.

Joel's Rant about people - aka David Fullerton - using Slack to send baby pictures to coworkers.

Our Constitution gets another hotly debated ammendment this week: If you switch back and forth between Macintosh and Windows should you remap COMMAND to be ALT and vice versa? Pro = yes, you should, Con = no, you shouldn't.

Post your answer to Twitter using the Hashtag #stackoverflowpodcast, with either PRO or CON and your explanation, short but juicy, in 140 characters. The best explanation, whether on the winning side or the losing side, will be read on next week's podcast and win a fabulous STACK OVERFLOW STICKER courtesy of the Stack Overflow Podcast.

Also, you can submit your ideas for future constitutional amendments on Twitter using #StackOverflowPodcast, and one of them might be named after you.

Last time's winner for the Constitutional question, "When driving with a friend, is it ok to ask that friend to get out and direct you while parallel parking?," is @HaikusByIsaac:

I reach out for help

You guide me to safe landing

Social bonds are built

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Calling our guest today 'special' would be an understatement. He's the co-founder of Stack Overflow (and this podcast), founder of Discourse, prolific writer and blogger at codinghorror.com, and most importantly, the subject of many internal Stack Overflow memes. It's @codinghorror himself, Mr Jeff Atwood! Jeff and Joel chat about where we came from and where we are going, including clips from past podcasts. If you care at all about SO history, then this episode is a must-listen.

Welcome to the Stack Overflow podcast #100!! Recorded Thursday, January 26, 2017 at Stack Overflow headquarters in NYC. Today's podcast is brought to you by the Cheeseburger. "It's a hamburger, topped with cheese!" But the real question is: Is a cheeseburger a sandwich? The podcast is also brought to you by IBM Compose. Compose has spent the last 5 years helping developers ship applications with production grade databases. Try Compose today and get a free limited edition T-Shirt. Hurry! Quantities are limited. Visit compose.com today. (Unfortunately, t-shirts are US only.)

Calling our guest today 'special' would be an understatement. He's the co-founder of Stack Overflow (and this podcast), founder of Discourse, prolific writer and blogger at codinghorror.com, and most importantly, the subject of many internal Stack Overflow memes. It's @codinghorror himself, Mr Jeff Atwood! Jeff and Joel chat about where we came from and where we are going, including clips from past podcasts. If you care at all about SO history, then this episode is a must-listen. You may also learn a little too much (or not enough?) about how to be a juggalo...

"Ultimately, [answering] the best questions are kind-of a form of storytelling, and that is what we were trying to get to. You can go and take 5 minutes out of your day, look at some semi-interesting Stack Overflow question and share some knowledge...it's a good feeling."

Jeff Atwood

"Computing is just typing words into boxes." - also Jeff Atwood

This week's SO Constitution question: When driving with a friend, is it ok to ask that friend to get out and direct you while parallel parking? Listen to the opinions of the hosts, and then post your answer to Twitter using the hashtag #stackoverflowpodcast, along with your explanation. Keep it short, but clever!

The funniest explanation, whether winning or losing, will be read on next week's podcast and win an awesome Stack Overflow Sticker.

Last week's winner, answering the question: PRO or CON: Is it pronounced "Data is…" or "Data are…"?

"@StackPodcast CON because it's weird to say "Data are my favorite Star Trek character #stackoverflowpodcast" - @ethanjpeters

This week's links:

IBM Compose

Discourse

Choosing Your Own Adventure - Coding Horror

OMTR - Band - The app for Groups!

How To Be a Juggalo on WikiHow

For the record, it's still Dalgas' fault.