HNpod 12: What Makes A Good Programmer, Mozilla Persona, Startup=Growth with Alex Muir, Dan Shipper, and Paul Kinlan
Guests:
Alex Muir, Entrepreneur and Developer (Original creator of HNpod)
Paul Kinlan Senior Developer Advocate at Google (http://paul.kinlan.me/ and http://webintents.org/)
Dan Shipper, co-creator of Firefly for browser based screen-sharing support (http://usefirefly.com/) and blogger (http://danshipper.com/).
More on our guests can be found at http://www.hnpod.com/guests.
Host:
Michael Mahemoff (http://player.fm/)
Stories:
Torvalds quote about good programmers
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/163185/torvalds-quote-about-good-programmer
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4560334
Announcing the First Beta Release of Mozilla Persona (formerly Browser ID)
http://identity.mozilla.com/post/32395255498/announcing-the-first-beta-release-of-persona
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4580986
Startup=Growth
http://paulgraham.com/growth.html
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4556838
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Alex: Cracked Smartphone screens
Paul: News Ltd's use of Mozilla Persona (http://labs.newsint.co.uk/blog/2012/10/why-mozilla-persona-is-the-right-answer-to-the-question-of-identity/)
Dan: Proliferation of tools that allow you to transform your Photoshop files into CSS easily.
Mike: Blackberry developer relations; exclusion filters to block spoilers
Podcast Recommendations:
Alex:
RadioLab
http://www.radiolab.org/
http://player.fm/series/wnycs-radiolab-7259
Paul:
http://thewebglpodcast.com (coming soon!)
Dan:
Arming the Donkeys http://danariely.com/2008/07/14/272/ http://player.fm/series/arming-the-donkeys
Mike:
The Lifestyle Business Podcast http://www.lifestylebusinesspodcast.com/ http://player.fm/series/the-lifestyle-business-podcast/episode-number-122-fear-and-loafing-in-manila-the-story-of-dan-and-ian
Featuring
Alex Muir Rails/Web Developer
Original creator of HNpod.
Dan Shipper Founder of Airtime for Email
Student, blogger, and founder of AirTime For Email (http://www.airtimehq.com/) and previously DomainPolish (http://domainpolish.com). Dan also recently released Firefly for screen-sharing support (http://usefirefly.com/).
Paul Kinlan Senior Developer Advocate at Google
He is currently the Senior Developer Advocate at Google. He helps developers to build cool stuff for Chrome, iGoogle, Chrome OS and the Chrome WebStore. He also has a website called Tales of a Developer Advocate (http://paul.kinlan.me/).