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DevJourney Podcast
#255 Tomas Petricek always looking under the covers Transcript ⚠ The following transcript was automatically generated. ❤ Help us out, Submit a pull-request to correct potential mistakes Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.
#123 Patrick Leblanc
Transcript ⚠ The following transcript was automatically generated. ❤ Help us out, Submit a pull-request to correct potential mistakes Patrick Leblanc 0:00 I would consider VB6 a little bit like the JavaScript of nowadays.
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Transcript ⚠ The following transcript was automatically generated. ❤ Help us out, Submit a pull-request to correct potential mistakes Wesley Faulkner 0:00 The opportunity came to purchase my own computer from a friend of mine. So I scrounged up, I think 250 bucks to buy this 46 piece of junk, but it was mine. And a month and a half after owning it, it wouldn't start up again.
#119 Virginia Harrison
Transcript ⚠ The following transcript was automatically generated. ❤ Help us out, Submit a pull-request to correct potential mistakes Virginia Harrison 0:00 I had gone to sleep for the night. And he knocked on the door and he had said, "Hey, are you awake?" And like the real answer was "no". But I was like, "yeah, yeah. What do you need?" And he said, "do you do you need like a job?" And I was graduating A week later. And I said, "Yeah, yeah, I'd do anything, literally anything".
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Transcript ⚠ The following transcript was automatically generated. ❤ Help us out, Submit a pull-request to correct potential mistakes Eva Ferreira 0:00 When you have an opportunity to teach somebody something you suddently realize this very humble moment where, okay, I don't really understand this. And you actually need to rethink a lot of things and relearn and other things to be able to teach somebody something.
#103 Carolyn Stransky
Software Developers Journey Podcast Transcript ⚠ The following transcript was automatically generated. ❤ Help us out, Submit a pull-request to correct potential mistakes Carolyn Stransky 0:00 When I was trying to learn JavaScript on my own, I thought that these function names I thought there was just like a list out there of like, 3000 functions that people memorize. And I was like, why am I the dumbest person on earth?
#113 Brendan OLeary
Transcript ⚠ The following transcript was automatically generated. ❤ Help us out, Submit a pull-request to correct potential mistakes Brendan O'Leary 0:00 You're sending notification to patients that they do or do not have suspected cancer. You know, that's really critical. You can't, if you get that wrong in one direction or another, it's it has major impacts on people's lives. And so that really shaped, you know, my thought on what quality software was.
#104 Jason Lengstorf
Transcript ⚠ The following transcript was automatically generated. ❤ Help us out, Submit a pull-request to correct potential mistakes Jason Lengstorf 0:00 I'm not an outstanding developer. I'm not like the best developer on the planet. I'm not a leading expert in any particular discipline or anything. I just, you know, I just know how to do stuff. But what I am really good at, is the improv, teaching stuff like I do with "online with Jason".
Transcript ⚠ The following transcript was automatically generated. ❤ Help us out, Submit a pull-request to correct potential mistakes Sam Julien 0:00 My one saving grace was that because I started doing philosophy courses, I took a Symbolic Logic class. And that ended up actually kind of kick starting a lot of that logical thinking that ended up becoming useful later on.
#126 Ev Haus
Transcript ⚠ The following transcript was automatically generated. ❤ Help us out, Submit a pull-request to correct potential mistakes Ev Haus 0:00 So I actually built my own fancy spreadsheet and I tracked all the artists across the whole company. And it did it in real time and provided status updates, like it was one of the fanciest spreadsheets you've ever seen in your life. And so I showed it to my manager, and I said, "hey, I've built this thing, a bunch of people have been using it here.
#128 Paula Gearon
Transcript β The following transcript was automatically generated. β€ Help us out, Submit a pull-request to correct potential mistakes Paula Gearon 0:00 Just before the company, that built the database in the first place, was closed down, I was asked if I could introduce a feature, which was going to provide semantics on the graph. Something called the web ontology language, and reasoning from that. And this was where computers are actually trying to pretend that they can think.
#106 Kyle Shevlin
Transcript ⚠ The following transcript was automatically generated. ❤ Help us out, Submit a pull-request to correct potential mistakes Kyle Shevlin 0:00 As you grow in your career, like your ability to convey the things you understand and know to others is going to become so important. It's going to become less and less about what can you get done? And more and more about how can you leverage others with what you know.
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Transcript ⚠ The following transcript was automatically generated. ❤ Help us out, Submit a pull-request to correct potential mistakes Nadia Zhuk 0:00 I made the conscious decision, that whenever there was a team meeting or some kind of meeting where there was a need to show some code and discuss it, that I would volunteer to share my screen. It was very stressful for me in the beginning just to open my code and type something when few other people were looking. I'm not sure why.
Transcript ⚠ The following transcript was automatically generated. ❤ Help us out, Submit a pull-request to correct potential mistakes Shawn Wang 0:02 I think that's one way to do the career chain transition, right, which is, have your own industry provide value while you learn the new industry. I was a customer expert because I wasn't the customer, right? So I could give it all the product requirements and validate everything before I went out and out the door in to learn to work with engineers.
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Transcript ⚠ The following transcript was automatically generated. ❤ Help us out, Submit a pull-request to correct potential mistakes Dotan Nahum 0:00 To be able to effectively learn, you need to put your brain in alert mode, and your brain goes there, when naturally, you don't understand something. So you know, you build frustration, and your brain is kind of going into a dead end and trying to recover. And then this is the moment where your brain is primed to learn.
Transcript ⚠ The following transcript was automatically generated. ❤ Help us out, submit a pull-request to correct eventual mistakes Jeff Haynie 0:00 I worked on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, I was I was called a troubleshooter, electronic aviation. So I, I was sort of one of those people that stood on this crazy flight deck when planes took off and was responsible for the, for the plane and making sure that people didn't crash and that it was safe to fly.
Software Developers Journey Podcast Transcript ⚠ The following transcript was automatically generated. ❤ Help us out, Submit a pull-request to correct potential mistakes Lior Bar Yosef 0:00 Besides how much I loved the job of teaching and guiding, and I really tried to push every soldier of mine to their full potential, and challenge them so that they'll be as ready as I can prepare them for their job in the future.
Season 4 Finale
Season 4 Finale
#114 Jamon Holmgren
Transcript ⚠ The following transcript was automatically generated. ❤ Help us out, Submit a pull-request to correct potential mistakes Jamon Holmgren 0:00 You kind of touched on one of my blind spots, weak spots. Because I did so much coding by myself, it was probably over a decade where I never coded with anybody else. it was just me coding by myself making games. At one point I actually did get hired to work on some software for some small businesses owned by people that my dad knew.
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Transcript ⚠ The following transcript was automatically generated. ❤ Help us out, Submit a pull-request to correct potential mistakes Emily Robinson 0:00 What it means to be a data analyst at one company versus a data scientist at that company, you know, could be totally different in another company. So Lyft actually wrote a blog post a couple years ago now, about how all their data analysts became data scientists or data scientists became research scientists.
#117 Roopak Venkatakrishnan
Transcript ⚠ The following transcript was automatically generated. ❤ Help us out, Submit a pull-request to correct potential mistakes Roopak Venkatakrishnan 0:00 When you join one of these bigger companies, you get to meet with managers, you get to meet with the team and you get to see something. Another thing that matters to me is the product I work on and I want to, you know, I want to be able to contribute, like, I want to really like the product I work on.
#125 Alice Goldfuss
Transcript ⚠ The following transcript was automatically generated. ❤ Help us out, Submit a pull-request to correct potential mistakes Alice Goldfuss 0:00 I was like, oh man, I am the only person on this team in this entire company who doesn't know how kernels work, or how to analyze a kernel crash. I need to figure this out. So I was teaching myself like, Oh, yeah, okay, these bits are flipped, that maps to this user. And like, this is what this is what that register means.
#118 Erik Rasmussen
Transcript ⚠ The following transcript was automatically generated. ❤ Help us out, Submit a pull-request to correct potential mistakes Erik Rasmussen 0:00 The reason that university degree means something is that you have a piece of paper that says that you are willing to do things and work on stuff that you don't really want to do. But that someone has told you that you have to do it.
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Transcript ⚠ The following transcript was automatically generated. ❤ Help us out, Submit a pull-request to correct potential mistakes Miguel Piedrafita 0:00 My goal for Blogcast was to make it in a week. Like That was my goal. I want to have a finished version of these in a week with like a dashboard and everything. And I ended up making that. And I got my first paying customer in that week, like at the end of the week, which was really great.
Transcript ⚠ The following transcript was automatically generated. ❤ Help us out, Submit a pull-request to correct potential mistakes Kathryn Erikson 0:00 We move really, really quickly. At the same time, there's a pandemic going on. Nobody's life is normal. We set aggressive deadlines. And at least once a week, I try to say, is the pace that we're going, affecting anybody's work life balance to the point that we should make a change?
#127 Emmanuel Bernard
Transcript ⚠ The following transcript was automatically generated. ❤ Help us out, Submit a pull-request to correct potential mistakes Emmanuel Bernard 0:00 So the App Server we chose was BEA, which was a great one at the time. And then the company had decided to go for DB2, IBM DB2. So it's BEA, one company, IBM another company. And we were using something called an object relational mapper that was taking objects and with a bit of mapping, like metadata would store the data in a in a table.
Transcript â The following transcript was automatically generated. ⤠Help us out, Submit a pull-request to correct potential mistakes Freya Holmér 0:00 Throwing objects, you know, with your arm like you physically throw things. That is something that you can have that feeling outside of VR. And even if you're like holding a Wiimote or whatever, it still feels a little bit detached. You have this like layer of abstraction. When you're in VR, you very much feel like you're actually there.
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