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With Chris Seaton: On Ph.Ds and Software Apprenticeships

Chris Seaton, founder of TruffleRuby, talks with me about getting a computer science Ph.D, how learning compilers is necessarily like an old-style apprenticeship, and a near-the-metal view of complex algorithms for computation. For show notes and links see: For show notes, links and comments see https://justtheusefulbits.com/jtub/chris-seaton-on-phds-and-software-apprenticeships/

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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 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

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