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ThinkRelevance: The Podcast - Episode 009 - Alan Dipert

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If you've looked at our website lately, you might have noticed that it's a lot easier to see that we do training. Of course, we've always done training, but lately we've realized that we needed to be a bit more obvious about the fact - hence the new info on the website. So I thought it would be a great time to bring Alan Dipert onto the show, as he had a big hand in both reshaping the website and the courses that we offer.

Of course, we didn't just talk about training. We also hit on the topics of the importance of data, criticisms of the Lambda Calculus, and famous hackers turned dance club owners. I certainly enjoyed my conversation with Alan - have a listen, and I think you will too!

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Show Notes

• Our guest, Alan:
  • @alandipert
  • Alan on GitHub
  • Alan’s blog
  • Mr. Dipert dresses exclusively in fine outerwear from The Mountain
• The music
  • The opening music was "(April) Spring, Summer & Wednesdays" by Status Quo
  • The closing music was "808 PM At the Beach", by Fred Falke
• People and stuff we mentioned on the show
  • Relevance training
  • Clojure
  • ClojureScript
  • Ruby
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Rich Hickey
  • How We Work
  • Agile
  • The Pragmatic Studio
  • DevelopMentor
  • Stu Halloway
  • Justin Gehtland
  • Stuart Sierra
  • Tim Ewald
  • Jamie Zawinski aka jwz
  • His club: DNA Lounge
  • His screensavers
  • His mix tapes
  • jwz’s Netscape home page
  • Netscape these days
  • Peter Norvig
  • Alan said jwz worked for Peter Norvig at CMU, but that is incorrect. jwz worked for Scott Fahlman at CMU and then later for Peter Norvig at Berkeley.
  • jwz hacked on the TI Explorer, not a Xerox Lisp Machine
  • Alan’s talk at Clojure/West about data shapes
  • C#
  • CSS
  • Datomic
  • Rich’s Strange Loop keynote from 2011
  • John Backus
  • His Turing award lecture, “Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?”
  • Backus-Naur
  • FORTRAN
  • ALGOL
  • Persistent data structures
  • “Smug Lisp Weenies”
  • “Why Calculating is Better than Scheming”
  • The Lambda Calculus
  • The FP programming language