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Podcast: airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien
Episode: The Open-Closed Principle and Lots of Magic
Description: An airhacks.fm conversation with Lincoln Baxter III (@lincolnthree) about:
the broken Apple Mac Plus,
accidental computer repair,
Crystal Quest,
Spectre,
playing MechWarrior,
programming logo at school,
ACS logo,
counting to a million with a shell script,
writing a Galaga clone for a TI-92
writing a multiplexing socket chat server in C++ at high school,
Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ book,
the year 2000 crisis,
University of Pennsylvania,
writing business applications in Java for vanguard,
"shared nothing architecture",
project leads had to enjoy xml,
Vienna is in Austria :-),
the open closed principle,
encapsulating the complexity,
never write abstractions first,
design patterns,
writing...