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Podcast: airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien
Episode: From Quantum Physics to Quarkus
Description: An airhacks.fm conversation with Holly Cummins (@holly_cummins) about:
first computer experience with her dad's Kaypro CPM machine and ASCII platform games,
learning Basic programming on an IBM PC clone to build a recipe management system,
studying physics at university with a doctorate in quantum computing,
self-teaching Java to create 3D visualizations of error correction on spheres during PhD research,
joining IBM as a self-taught programmer without formal computer science education,
working on Business Event Infrastructure (BDI) at IBM,
brief unhappy experience porting JMS to .net with Linux and VNC,
moving to IBM's JVM performance team working on garbage...