Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots
About the show
A podcast about the design, development, and business of great software. Each week thoughtbot is joined by the people who build and nurture the products we love.
Episodes
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72: Up in the Mountains (Nathan Barry)
October 27th, 2013 | Season 2 | 32 mins 39 secs
This week on The Giant Robots Podcast, Ben Orenstein chats with Nathan Barry about book writing, teaching and self employment.
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71: The Power of the Truth
October 20th, 2013 | Season 2 | 39 mins 53 secs
Josh Clayton and Ben Orenstein interview each other about their managing director positions.
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70: Let Your Freak Flag Fly
October 13th, 2013 | Season 2 | 40 mins 17 secs
Ben Orenstein speaks with Jeff Atwood about Discourse, forum software, and soylent.
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69: Geocoding in the Now
October 6th, 2013 | Season 2 | 14 mins 50 secs
Ben Orenstein interviews Josh Clayton and Laila Winner on their book, Geocoding on Rails.
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68: Simplicity and Elegance
September 29th, 2013 | Season 2 | 34 mins 10 secs
Ben Orenstein and Paul Farnell, CEO of Litmus, talk about starting up, business practices, and Litmus.
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67: The Data Optimist
September 22nd, 2013 | Season 2 | 29 mins 41 secs
Ben Orenstein and Hilary Mason, Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners, talk about Data Science, Bitly and Cheeseburgers.
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66: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
September 15th, 2013 | Season 2 | 40 mins 18 secs
Ben talks with Anthony Eden about DNSimple, programming languages and code retreats.
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65: No! Videos Private!
September 8th, 2013 | Season 2 | 38 mins 25 secs
On this episode Ben talks with Chris Savage and Brendan Schwartz about Wistia
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64: Wistfully Into the Air
September 1st, 2013 | Season 2 | 36 mins 18 secs
In this episode of Giant Robots Ben talks with Des Traynor about intercom, concise communication. blogging and customer outreach.
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63: Knowledge Bomb!
August 25th, 2013 | Season 2 | 48 mins 37 secs
Ben and Chad discuss mentoring, job hunting tips and FAQ
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62: Family Business
August 18th, 2013 | Season 2 | 31 mins 39 secs
In this of episode of Giant Robots, Ben speaks with Natalie Nagele and Ilya Sabanin about Wildbit, Beanstalk, and work flow.
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61: Having the Craic with Paul
August 11th, 2013 | Season 2 | 34 mins 56 secs
In this episode Paul and Ben talk about tito, funconf, and organizing conferences.
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60: Deep Dive
August 4th, 2013 | Season 2 | 34 mins 1 sec
In this week's episode Ben discusses effective business practices and advice for optimal page design with special guest Patrick McKenzie.
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59: Nowhere to Hide
July 28th, 2013 | Season 2 | 25 mins 52 secs
In this episode, Ben Orenstein speaks with thoughtbot CTO Joe Ferris about the technical interview process at thoughtbot, and more.
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58: A Thousand Neckbeards
July 21st, 2013 | Season 2 | 31 mins 12 secs
This week Ben Orenstein, Pat Brisbin, and Mike Burns talk about Haskell, Linux, functional and dynamic programming, Conway's Game of Life, and much more.
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57: Delayed Gratification
July 14th, 2013 | Season 2 | 28 mins 10 secs
In this episode, Ben Orenstein is joined by Michael Klett, Co-founder and tech lead of Chargify. Ben and Michael discuss the evolution of Chargify and bumps along the way, underwear subscriptions, Michael’s transition from hardware to software, negativity in the Rails community, slow tests, and much more.