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With Jared White: the Trip from PHP to Ruby and Beyond

Jared and I talk about his journey through all sorts of programming platforms, from the Commodore 128, through PHP to Ruby and onward. He talks about Object Oriented programming, Rails service objects and why he doesn't like classes that are just functions. He talks about how GitHub brings a little of the benefits of pair programming to the single-programmer experience. We even talk a little language performance, and how machine learning code looks weirdly like graphics and GPGPU. For show notes, links and comments see https://justtheusefulbits.com/jtub/jared-white-the-trip-from-php-to-ruby/

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  With Larry Orton: Getting Started and Standing Out

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  With Tobi Pfeiffer: So Many Languages

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  With Ross Kaffenberger: Teaching, WebPacker and Paradigms

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  With Craig Petterson: Buzzwords, Pina Coladas and Centaur Chess

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  With Akien McIain: Test Automation Engineering

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  With Andrew Owen: the Culture of Programming -- If You're Raised by Missio…

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  With Andrew Mason: I Expected College to be Basically Boot Camp

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  With Shai Schechter: Hustle Hard, Do What's Practical

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  With Caitlyn Greffly: It's Like Being Paid to Go to School and Make Cool T…

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  With Jennifer Tran: Coding Paradigms, the Satisfaction of Studying and Uns…

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  With Ernesto Tagwerker: Learning Programming, Business and Management

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  With John Pavan: Coming to Programming from Nuclear Physics

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  With Chris Seaton: On Ph.Ds and Software Apprenticeships

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  With Michael Dominick: Your Duck Was the Only Thing That Company Had Going…

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  With George Sheppard: On Security, UML and What's More Important than Money