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TCLP 2010-06-16: Inner Chapter: Why Programming is Hard

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

In the intro, a mention of the merit badges arriving and the first pictures.

Also a quick review of “The Affinity Bridge” by George Mann.

There is no listener feedback this week.

The hacker word of the week this week is feetch feetch.

The feature this week is an Inner Chapter consider the question of why programming is hard. In it, I mention “Dreaming in Code ” by Scott Rosenberg, an interview about the CHAOS reports, Kolmogorov complexity, Jordan Peterson’s talk on TVO’s Big Ideas.

View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive.

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