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Programming Throwdown

Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci

Objective C, Tech News, Programming Languages, News, Education, How To, C, Python, Programming Throwdown, Java

4.5 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2014

⏱️ 77 minutes

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This show covers OpenSCAD and 3d modeling. Tools of the show: Jason: uSelect iDownload Patrick: Skulls of the Shogun. Books of the show: Jason: My Friend Dahmer http://amzn.to/1eOLNL8 Patrick: Make Magazine http://makezine.com/.

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0:16.5	Programming Throwdown, episode 32, OpenScad.
0:20.7	Take it away, Jason.
0:22.5	Hey, everybody.
0:23.8	Yeah, I've been answering a lot of questions on Stack Overflow and Quora.
0:29.5	This is my new hobby.
0:32.8	Not answering questions for your child yet?
0:34.9	No, no, definitely.
0:37.0	He's like, why is this sky blue? And I tell him to
0:40.3	ask me on Stack Overflow. I need more points. Yeah, yeah. Ask me on Sky Exchange. But,
0:49.6	yeah, I've been answering questions on like Math Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow and Quora and it's been interesting it's kind of fun one thing I
0:58.8	noticed is you know I've I've met people who have you know a bazillion points
1:05.7	in Stack Overflow and I realized that at a certain level it becomes almost like a click um it's kind of weird
1:13.6	like you know I was asking people how do you get so many points and I guess at some level people
1:20.1	start like you can you can basically invest your points and questions and so the questions are
1:25.5	really really hard to answer or or that are say like very
1:29.6	nebulous you know a bunch of people with a lot of points will answer and someone will pick one of
1:35.2	them and and that person will get even more points and so it becomes like you kind of have to know
1:39.0	the right people and and i realize like almost everything when you get to a high enough level devolves into a click.
1:47.7	Like for example, I worked with a guy on my last team who was the world junior chess champion.
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