Prolog

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

🗓️ 4 July 2011

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

This show covers Prolog (Programmable Logic), a rule based language based on deductive inferencing. The episode talks about the Zynga IPO, Google+, and types of coders (Computer Scientist, Programmer, and Developer). The tools of the biweek are FreeNX, a remote desktop server and client, and Evernote, a note taking application that stores notes in the cloud.

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0:07.0	HostT.net.
0:13.0	Programming throwdown.
0:18.0	Episode number 8.
0:20.0	Prolog! Take it away, Jason.
0:23.2	So I got some good news and I got some bad news.
0:26.4	That's the way they always come in pairs.
0:28.3	Yeah, it's true. It's his dichotomy. The good news is I got a smartphone.
0:33.4	Finally?
0:34.1	It's the 21st century. Yeah, that's right. I went through this issue where it's like, oh, I want the iPhone.
0:41.0	And it's like, oh, I'll wait for the next iPhone.
0:42.8	And then, oh, I'll wait for the next iPhone.
0:45.2	And, you know, it's just perpetual paralysis.
0:49.2	But I got to the point where, you know, with moving and needing a new number and everything,
0:53.5	I felt like
0:54.4	it was time to abandon my feature phone and go smartphone. And I'm loving it. I think it's
1:00.0	awesome. I love, I'm totally geeking out with it. Like I, the other day we had to walk to the post
1:05.3	office and, you know, we go there constantly. But I used Google maps and it kind of like gave you walking directions
1:12.3	and you could see yourself in your phone like yeah see like a top down view like you're playing
1:16.6	pacman or something is the honeymoon period yeah that's right you're an expert on the smartphone
1:22.5	no i'm not an expert but yeah i remember we're first getting one and you're like obsessed and you know
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