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Lex Fridman · 2018-11-29

Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror | Lex Fridman Podcast #7

Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror | Lex Fridman Podcast #7

Recommended on this episode

BookRecommendedISBN verified

Code Complete

Steve McConnell

“my favorite programming but still probably my number one programming book for anyone to read”
“it's from a book by Steve McConnell code complete which is where my favorite programming but still probably my number one programming book for anyone to read”— Jeff Atwood
BookRecommendedISBN verified

Masters of Doom

David Kushner (inferred)

“a fantastic book anybody listening this who hasn't read it please read it's such a great book”
“one of the best points he makes in the book masters of doom which is a fantastic book anybody listening this who hasn't read it please read it's such a great book”— Jeff Atwood
BookRecommendedISBN verified

Peopleware

Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister (inferred)

“another classic programming book which again up there with code complete please read”
“another classic programming book which again up there with code complete please read people where it's that software is people right”— Jeff Atwood
ProductRecommended

Mechanical keyboard

“I highly recommend anybody who doesn't have a mechanical to research it”
“I highly recommend anybody who doesn't have a mechanical to research it look into it and see what you like”— Jeff Atwood

The guest's own work

ProductBy the guest

Discourse

Jeff Atwood

“that's kind of the vision of discourse is a place where it's it's fully open source you can take the software you can saw it anywhere”— Jeff Atwood
ProductBy the guest

Stack Overflow

Jeff Atwood

“well let me start with the very being so Stack Overflow is very structured wiki style QA for programmers right and that was the problem we first worked on”— Jeff Atwood
ProductBy the guest

CODE Keyboard

Jeff Atwood

“so last question you've created the code keyboard I've programmed most of my adult life and a Kinesis keyboard I have one upstairs now”— Lex Fridman

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

MediaReferenced

Forum Wars

“I found a game called forum Wars which was a parody of forum it's still very very funny of like foreign behavior”— Jeff Atwood
ProductReferenced

TypeScript

Microsoft

“now you have this thing called typescript from Microsoft from the guy who built c-sharp Anders who's one of the greatest minds in software development”— Jeff Atwood
ProductReferenced

GitHub

Microsoft

“now you compare today like github right like Microsoft brought github which I think was incredibly smart acquisition move on their part”— Jeff Atwood
ProductReferenced

WordPress

Automattic (inferred)

“like WordPress for example to me is like a tool for someone who is in a programmer to do something I mean you can turn WordPress into anything”— Jeff Atwood
ProductReferenced

Kinesis keyboard

Kinesis (inferred)

“you've created the code keyboard I've programmed most of my adult life and a Kinesis keyboard I have one upstairs now”— Lex Fridman