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18:27 pdurbin bear: CircleCI mentioned at http://pythontesting.net/podcast/testing-in-startups-joe-stump-sprintly/
18:31 bear thanks!
18:32 bear wow - I really need to refresh my podcast listening
18:33 pdurbin Sprintly itself sounds kinda neat: Agile issue tracking - sprint.ly - http://sprint.ly
18:36 pdurbin heh. "someday the black box will, like, poop that thing out, and I'll have it" ~24:00
18:37 bear :)
18:55 pdurbin bear: if you listen, I'd be curious to hear your take on his "chaotic hacker" concept ~38:00
18:55 bear i'm 17 minutes in
18:55 pdurbin sweet
19:00 pdurbin almost time to pick up my kid and her friend from http://girlhackathon.com
19:00 bear nice!
19:02 pdurbin hopefully in the future the iPad will be used for more than just Bread Kittens :)
19:03 bear i'm always looking for good coding tools for an iPad
19:04 pdurbin Hopscotch is well worth checking out.
19:06 bear "chaotic mess in the middle"
19:22 bear that chaotic hacker concept is odd - sounds like a new label for the old school concept of self starter + passionate for code
20:08 pdurbin bear: I understand what he's driving at but he should probably be careful not to discriminate against single parents and other busy people
20:08 bear yea, he was definitely biased towards younger folk
20:09 bear heck, github wasn't even around during my busiest phase of my coding career
20:13 pdurbin I mean, I get what he's saying. He likes hackers. Don't we all.
20:16 bear he is probably a good example of the startup founder bias towards young people
20:16 bear doesn't consider anything except someone who has "passion" which is code for "I can get them to code for 90+ hours and they will like it"
20:22 pdurbin yeah, reminds me of https://medium.freecodecamp.com/being-a-developer-after-40-3c5dd112210c#.ol98dgggf
20:23 * bear nods
20:23 bear that was a good read
20:23 pdurbin especially the open workspace stuff :)
20:23 bear oh my - yes!
20:24 pdurbin bear: I'm not going to guess how many hours Joe Stump expects people to work per day. It's hard to tell. It seems like he's trying to be a good manager. I understand what he means about not being able to teach work ethic.
20:25 bear true, I didn't mean to imply that Joe *was* that type of manager - just the feeling I got
20:25 bear and totally agree with the work ethic part - i've inherited team members where you could tell that the prior manage just didn't even think about that aspect of someone's personality
20:59 pdurbin yeah
20:59 pdurbin not that I've ever been much of a manager
21:58 pdurbin oh, and the girls enjoyed the Hopscotch hackathon. especially because there were Oreos. they said they'd go again next year
21:59 pdurbin I heard that a Hopscotch developer was there, but the kids were ready to go so I didn't meet anyone. Not even the organizers, who seemed really nice over email.
22:03 pdurbin bear: I don't know what you mean by "coding tools for iPad" ... Hopscotch is kind of like Scratch but you author the games or apps or whatever right on the iPad itself
22:04 bear kinda that - looking for fun coding environments that work on the ipad
22:04 bear scratch, logo, even python if possible
22:04 pdurbin the friend's mom and I were wondering what Hopscotch's funding model is... it's a free app
22:05 bear no ads?
22:09 pdurbin I don't think so, but I haven't spent much time in the app.
22:09 pdurbin looks like they're venture backed: http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/08/hopscotch-seed/
22:10 pdurbin bear: android rather than ipad but I'm a huge fan of http://appinventor.mit.edu
22:10 bear cool
22:11 pdurbin oh, and I just tweeted about that podcast episode: https://twitter.com/philipdurbin/status/726893351983828993
22:13 bear cool - just retweeted it
22:18 pdurbin I'm hearing about https://uva.onlinejudge.org for the first time. It's like topcoder, I guess.
22:20 bear cool, eu based school running it from the looks of it
22:21 pdurbin yeah, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVa_Online_Judge
22:22 pdurbin bear: now I'm curious if you have any podcast recommendations for me
22:22 bear that's part of my comment from above - all of mine are like 2 or 3 yrs old
22:22 bear I listen to podcasts only when someone pings me about a specific episode
22:22 pdurbin ah, ok
22:24 bear the only one I listen to on a regular basis is https://theshipshow.com
22:24 pdurbin ah, yeah, that's a good one
22:27 pdurbin I was slightly weirded out recently by https://twitter.com/jpaulreed/status/721468953730490372
22:42 pdurbin bear: I wonder if you'd like http://datadrivensecurity.info
22:43 * bear adds it to the queue
23:25 pdurbin there are a lot of podcasts like that where I listen to one episode and it doesn't immediately grab me but I stay subscribed just in case
23:25 pdurbin and I tell myself I'll listen to some more episodes to get a better idea of it
23:26 bear that was my "downfall" also - the list ended up being too long and I kept getting notified for podcasts that I just wasn't going to listen to
23:27 pdurbin up until about a year ago there were a number of podcasts for which I never missed an episode. it was too much. now I pick and choose much more on a per-episode level
23:30 pdurbin I wish more conference talks were available in a audio podcast feed.

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