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My favourite Books of Last Year: Recommendations for 2025
On every Minds Behind Maps episode I ask guests for books they've read they think are worth sharing. This time I'm sharing with you the books I read & recommend from my 2024 reading.
Shownotes
Note: Links to books are Amazon Affiliate links. I earn a small commission if you buy any of these books.
- Utopia For Realists (Amazon Affiliate) amzn.to/4a3HFuy
- The Capitalist Manifesto (Amazon Affiliate) amzn.to/3PnC6gZ
- The New Breadline (Amazon Affiliate)amzn.to/400ZkhP
- Jean Martin Bauer on MBM: ua-cam.com/video/yhY0zO7yxzM/v-deo.htmlsi=i_zPJkCgf_A2kL9V
- Three Body Problem Trilogy (Amazon Affiliate) amzn.to/3DGq53T
- When the Heavens Went on Sale (Amazon Affiliate) amzn.to/40k2EpD
- Ashlee Vance on MBM: ua-cam.com/video/GusGAcdiSRs/v-deo.htmlsi=BD3SdTmFOokdFxLV
- Into the Wild(Amazon Affiliate) amzn.to/3PkYzeN
- The Little Prince(Amazon Affiliate) amzn.to/40lCBOY
- Night Flight(Amazon Affiliate) amzn.to/3PqYFBz
- My conversation with Jed Sundwall on Techs on Texts: ua-cam.com/video/HaTqFz2oib4/v-deo.htmlsi=CtsYj_hlHMS8CnjY
Timestamps
(00:00) - Trying something new today
(00:37) - Utopia For Realists
(02:23) - The Capitalist Manifesto
(11:44) - The New Breadline
(15:59) - Three Body Problem Trilogy
(21:42) - When the Heavens Went on Sale
(25:36) - Into the Wild
(32:16) - The Little Prince & Night Flight
(37:46) - Conclusion
- Support the podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mindsbehindmaps
- My Twitter: MaxLenormand
- Read Previous Issues of the Newsletter: mindsbehindsmaps_newsletter.ck.page/posts
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How Bloomberg's Data Scientists use Satellite Images for Reporting: Krishna Karra
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Krishna Karra is a data scientist & report for Bloomberg, having used machine learning & satellite images for reporting. Sponsor: Beemaps by Hivemapper Get access to high quality, fresh map data at beemaps.com/minds Use promo code MINDS to get 50% off your API credits through Dec. 31 2024 Listen to this episode audio only as a podcast on your favourite app - Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/fr...
How @PhilEdwardsInc thinks about Maps to Tell Stories
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Phil Edwards is a video producer who worked at Vox for nearly 10 years, and now runs his own UA-cam channel exploring the history of businesses, and lately has been using more and more maps. We go over one of his latest videos, “The Secret Economics of Google Street View” as a case study of how Phil thinks about maps to tell stories. We also talk about journalism on UA-cam, and the business beh...
What Hyperspectral constellations have to offer: Pixxel’s example.
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Awais Ahmed is the co-founder & CEO of Pixxel, a company building a constellation of hyperspectral imaging satellites. Unlike “traditional” cameras, these satellites can see across hundreds of bands, opening up a lot more applications. We talk about the engineering -and funding- required to pull this off and how Awais manages a company between India (where Awais is from) and the US. But that’s ...
The Ex-Uber Data Scientist Who wants to simplify Data Science with Serverless Computing
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Sina Kashuk is the co-founder & CEO of Fused, who wants to make iterating & deploying in Python faster with serverless computing. We break down what that actually means, why it matters and what data science workflows could look like over the next few years. This also isn’t Sina’s first company, a few years ago he started Unfolded, focused on making visualisations for data scientists faster. The...
Meet the Man Trying to build a 20cm 3D Map of the World: Andrew Peterson
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Andrew Peterson is the Co-Founder & CEO of Array Labs, with a simple mission: Mapping the whole world in 3D, at 20cm in near real time. We peel the layers as to what it takes to get there: the engineering that’s required, how to build a constellation to do that, how you fund such a project Sponsor: OpenCage Use OpenCage for your geocoding needs with their API: opencagedata.com/ Geomob: thegeomo...
How We're Planning to Map All our Oceans by 2030
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Jamie McMichael-Phillips is the Director of the Seabed 2030 Project, which aims to map all of the world's oceans, by 2030. For context, in 2024, we’re at 26.1%. This is conversation is about why, how we get to 100% and why it’s important in the first place. Sponsor: SatCamp satcamp.xyz/ SatCamp is a different kind of conference, from October 1st to October 3rd 2024, in Boulder Colorado Listen t...
How the World Food Program prevents the World from running out of Food: Jean-Martin Bauer
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¬Jean-Martin Bauer has been working at the World Food Program for over 20years, and the author of the “The New Breadline”. Most recently he was the Country Director for Haiti, in charge of helping make sure the country doesn’t run out of food. Sponsor: SatCamp satcamp.xyz/ SatCamp is a different kind of conference, from October 1st to October 3rd 2024, in Boulder Colorado About Jean-Martin - Li...
The Man telling us the Stories of the New Space Industry
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Ashlee Vance is a Tech Journalist, the author of Elon Musk's 1st biography in 2015, the host of "Hello World" on UA-cam and the author of "When the Heavens Went on Sale" as well as the accompanying documentary "Wild Wild Space" following 4 New Space companies. We nerd out on rocket companies, 1 rogue NASA administrator, and the time I got to meet Vladimir Putin years ago. Sponsor: OpenCage Use ...
What it takes to start a Satellite Image Marketplace - Luke Fischer on SkyFi
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Luke Fischer is the Co-Founder & CEO of SkyFi, a company that we'll describe in a few ways in this episode, but boils down to an Earth Observation marketplace. We talk about Luke's 20 year time in the military before getting into startups, why Luke is bullish on their approach and many more Sponsor: SatCamp satcamp.xyz/ SatCamp is a different kind of conference, from October 1st to October 3rd ...
We have Foundation Models of Earth, what now? Earth Index with Ben Strong
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Ben Strong is the Science & Machine Learning Lead at Earth Genome, an NGO working on the intersection of data, science & digital design. Most recently they've been working on Earth Index, an application built on top of Earth embeddings from foundation models. This conversation is the "so what" of Earth foundational model Sponsor: OpenCage Use OpenCage for your geocoding needs with their API: op...
Ib Green: Browser based visualisation rendering - MBM#68
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Ib Green led the development of 3D visualisation tools like for example Uber’s deck.gl and is now working at Foursquare, after having started Unfolded, which Foursquare acquired. During this conversation we touch on how browser based visualisations are changing This episode is supported by all the people on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mindsbehindmaps Access Behind the Scenes and support the podcas...
What does a Foundational Model of Earth look like? Clay v1
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Bruno Sanchez is the Executive Director of the Clay Foundation, which just released their v1 of a “Foundational Model of Earth”. We talk about what that means, building open source & non profits and can’t help but draw parallels to the not-so-open anymore OpenAI. Previously Bruno was the Program Director of the Microsoft Planetary Computer Sponsor: OpenCage Use OpenCage for your geocoding needs...
How to Map Mars (to Land Rovers)
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Dr Fred Calef III has the unofficial title of "Keeper of Maps" at NASA JPL, he's the Lead Mapping Specialist for most of JPL's Mars Rover missions, most recently that being Perseverance & Curiosity. But to land -and navigate- a rover, one needs maps. Sponsor: Nimbo by Kermap: maps.nimbo.earth/ Try out Kermap's monthly mosaic viewer Nimbo for yourself Support the podcast on Patreon: www.patreon....
Creating the most used map animation tool: GEOLayers - Markus Bergelt
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Creating the most used map animation tool: GEOLayers - Markus Bergelt
Building the Simplest Mapping Library: Volodymyr Agafonkin
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Building the Simplest Mapping Library: Volodymyr Agafonkin
Qiusheng Wu: Building & Sharing Open Source Software
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Qiusheng Wu: Building & Sharing Open Source Software
Ryan Abernathey: Taking Scientific Computing to the next level
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Ryan Abernathey: Taking Scientific Computing to the next level
An Honest Conversation on Satellite Image's Role Against Deforestation with Gilberto Camara
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An Honest Conversation on Satellite Image's Role Against Deforestation with Gilberto Camara
Breaking down Radar Satellite Images: Tom Ager - MBM#60
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Breaking down Radar Satellite Images: Tom Ager - MBM#60
The Story of Google Maps & Pokemon Go with Brian McClendon - MBM#59
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The Story of Google Maps & Pokemon Go with Brian McClendon - MBM#59
Hivemapper, Crowdsourcing mapping & Crypto: Ariel Seidman - MBM#58
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Hivemapper, Crowdsourcing mapping & Crypto: Ariel Seidman - MBM#58
12 Conversations About Maps, Satellite Images & Tech from 2023
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12 Conversations About Maps, Satellite Images & Tech from 2023
Visual Effects with Maps, Working with Johnny Harris & Joining a Tech Startup - Jason Boone MBM56
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Visual Effects with Maps, Working with Johnny Harris & Joining a Tech Startup - Jason Boone MBM56
Maps, Biology & Building a Software Company that hosts conferences - Javier de la Torre MBM#55
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Maps, Biology & Building a Software Company that hosts conferences - Javier de la Torre MBM#55
What Does it Actually takes to Map the Indoors: Hongwei Liu - #MBM54
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What Does it Actually takes to Map the Indoors: Hongwei Liu - #MBM54
Sean Gorman: Startups, Coding Isn't for Everyone, Finding What (& with whom) to work on - #MBM53
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Sean Gorman: Startups, Coding Isn't for Everyone, Finding What (& with whom) to work on - #MBM53
A Candid Conversation with the CEO of TomTom: Harold Goddijn - MBM#52
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A Candid Conversation with the CEO of TomTom: Harold Goddijn - MBM#52
Why Did Apple get into Maps? (And how they got there) - James Killick #MBM51
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Why Did Apple get into Maps? (And how they got there) - James Killick #MBM51
An Introduction to Earth Observation with Aravind Ravichandran - MBM#50
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An Introduction to Earth Observation with Aravind Ravichandran - MBM#50

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @omniyambot9876
    @omniyambot9876 8 днів тому

    I wish there will be a point in life where I could be in a similar position. I'm so proud of him and inspired.

  • @nordicvolkan
    @nordicvolkan 8 днів тому

    Very nice recommendation by the way I haven't read any of them yet. 👍

  • @deepsub6
    @deepsub6 17 днів тому

    I'm looking for recent satellite imaging of Gaza. I want to see satellite image analysis of the destruction of infrastructure and movement of civilians throughout the IDF assault of Gaza. Where can I find this information? There are many youtubers providing war updates on the Ukraine/russia war, who is following the Gaza war?

  • @justin-griffioen
    @justin-griffioen 25 днів тому

    Super interesting episode!

  • @q____o.O_________D
    @q____o.O_________D 29 днів тому

    Great podcast. I think the issue you two discuss, about data journalism contributing to what Paul Slovic calls psychic numbing, is best met with cross-disciplinary storytelling... so it's great to hear a journalist with a data scientist background collaborating with academics, and talking openly about the time-crunch/tooling/narrative challenges in a format like this. So really: I enjoyed this from start to finish 🙏 Funny enough, I'm also reading the Overstory right now :)

  • @Debubbleization
    @Debubbleization Місяць тому

    really interesting!

  • @jordanbranum327
    @jordanbranum327 Місяць тому

    Serious props to @BooneLovesVideo; he pulled me out of the GIS Tech grind while helping me expand my knowledge and skill set to grow into a true Geospatial developer. Always love to see people who didn't go to college for Geography become popular geospatial people in real-time

  • @jordanbranum327
    @jordanbranum327 Місяць тому

    Seriously only 9 comments??? This story seems like something out of the early 2000s when anyone could program something to build off of, this team under Geolayer def set standards of what mapping design would look like in web applications in the 2010-2020s. I hope they continue to build and develop the toolset long-term

  • @jasonremy1627
    @jasonremy1627 Місяць тому

    Thanks for this interview. It was great!

  • @saikatbiswas3550
    @saikatbiswas3550 Місяць тому

    Interesting conversation. Loved it❤

  • @lituahmed4035
    @lituahmed4035 2 місяці тому

    Hey there, is it possible to have a discount on geolayers? How can i contact him?

    • @mindsbehindmaps
      @mindsbehindmaps 2 місяці тому

      The best place to reach out to Markus is probably through the Geolayers page: aescripts.com/geolayers/

  • @TimothyWhiteheadzm
    @TimothyWhiteheadzm 2 місяці тому

    'Thank God for AWS and cloud compute'. Actually I am fairly sure that if you have consistent compute loads like satellite imagery it is cheaper to do it inhouse.

  • @mallukittens177
    @mallukittens177 2 місяці тому

    1984 is not science fiction imao 😂

  • @ronabood007
    @ronabood007 2 місяці тому

    The guy who take advantage with other guy naiveness.take advantage of the person who look up to him. A guy who idol him. He knows that and he prey on him.the man who trusted him and betrayed him is a man you can’t be trusted at all. I don’t know how he is sleeping day and night in out.

  • @Pro_Data
    @Pro_Data 2 місяці тому

    So Markus focusing more on the webapp means less future updates on Geolayers for After Effects. I tried the webapp and honestly for someone that wants to create unique animations to stand out from the others, the webapp is the worst possible choice, since it has only the built-in things, unlike with AE where you can create your own presets, styles and animations.

  • @barreracruzangeldaniel8208
    @barreracruzangeldaniel8208 2 місяці тому

    Amo muchooooooo que bonitos videos Thanks!

  • @lettymendonca
    @lettymendonca 2 місяці тому

    Glad to catch one on the same day. Awesome as always. Thanks Max and Peter 🙌

  • @amritanshuraj1
    @amritanshuraj1 2 місяці тому

    Wow, You are putting some quality work here. Thanks

  • @sandun4983
    @sandun4983 2 місяці тому

    keep a side the OSM part. look at his thinking pattern.wow. this is most fascinating interview recently i watch.

  • @pookiepats
    @pookiepats 3 місяці тому

    Exactly but too much money is made off the marketing of data science and they need python 🐍 and its garbage syntax to attract people Go and Rust are easily superior options for dev ops side, i refused to deploy python in our stack - take a stand! There are legitimate alternatives

    • @pythonGIS
      @pythonGIS 2 місяці тому

      @pookiepats Can you explain why you think so?

    • @pookiepats
      @pookiepats 2 місяці тому

      @@pythonGIS i was and still am a big jupyter notebook fan-when I first picked it up I would use it for presentations of SQL snippets and use Python for little transformations of data; at that time I was writing them solo in a non data science environment (I was an ERP consultant teaching IT people how to manage custom tables/views). For that purpose it was fine, a pain to setup but fine once stable. Then I got a new job where there was some actual scale and iteration speed expected-wrangling in an AWS Glue implementation with Athena & S3 handoffs; the experience was shite. Python is so incredibly slow and inefficient (which matters when your implementation cost 4x more than the scala and sql devs are turning in). Luckily I found a Go package called “goNb” and another called “go+” that still let me utilize Jupyter notebooks without the Python implementation but ever since then I’ve understood the truth about Python. In a competitive environment where speed and efficiency matter-it’s literally the worst choice; even worse than pure Node implementations.

  • @NimaHamidii
    @NimaHamidii 3 місяці тому

    What GEOlayer does is unimaginable and incredible, for a simple map with a small zoom & Animation, before GEOlayer, you had to download the map for hours and days, stitch it together and get a result that may be not very good result and It wasn't fun, but with GEOlayer it's like going from hell to heaven, unimaginable! It's true that the price is high, but in my opinion it's a masterpiece, well done Mr. Markus. I always wanted to hear Markus, this complex brain that found these ways etc. , the importance of GEOlayer and its complexity is its behind-the-scenes connection with hundreds of sites and maps that with one click you can jump from Microsoft to another place and hundreds of options and options, had at his disposal. I didn't go to school, university, etc., but I learned motion graphics by myself. before GEOlayer I made many map and animated it just for fun! after I bought GEOlayer and learned , the only description is like going from hell to heaven. Perhaps the only flaw, or rather the lack, which of course does not go back to Markus, is the lack of open source educational material, which explains some of the complexities well. For example, Element 3D has a book or PDF that is very complete, you can find the answer to almost anything in it. But GEOlayer lacks it. Of course, GEOlayer's complexity cannot be compared with Element 3D, GEOlayer is like an airplane and Element 3D is like a truck. I wish you would link some of Marcos's work on the TV channel that works, here. we could see and learn about Markos in the position of motion designer, his ideas, his work style, choices, etc. Thanks for this interview, I stumbled upon the link and am excited to see, listen and learn more from Marcus. I hope you will add a link to Markus's work, or at least introduce the TV station where we can watch Markus's work, follow him, and definitely learn a lot. I follow the work of Johnny Harris and Boone Loves Video and others, but seeing Architect behind GEOlayer work is something else! Thank you !

  • @christopherd.winnan8701
    @christopherd.winnan8701 3 місяці тому

    Thank you for the detailed shownotes, which were very helpful. We can we download some sample 3D data to play with. I am very excited by the latest Pixstral Model and would love to see how it performs on 3D radar images. I might even set up a couple of LORAs using a bunch of Spot-The-Difference and Hidden Object exercises. Have you used similar techniques?

    • @mindsbehindmaps
      @mindsbehindmaps 3 місяці тому

      The easiest is for you to get in touch with the Array Labs team, they’ll probably be able to give you answers to all of your questions

    • @christopherd.winnan8701
      @christopherd.winnan8701 3 місяці тому

      @@mindsbehindmaps - Thank you, I will give them a try.

    • @christopherd.winnan8701
      @christopherd.winnan8701 3 місяці тому

      @@mindsbehindmaps - Do you have a method of contacting them? Their website is returning my emails.

  • @craigb8228
    @craigb8228 4 місяці тому

    Technology will accidently destroy us.

  • @waperboy
    @waperboy 4 місяці тому

    I'm not a fan of mass-deployment of satellites. For instance I think StarLink and the likes are an abomination. Orbital space is a scarce resource, and should be treated as such. Kind of like helium - every kid's helium balloon I see makes me sad, to waste a scarce resource on something short-sighted.

    • @weasle2904
      @weasle2904 4 місяці тому

      Starlinks are at a very low orbit and are loaded with fuel to maintain the orbit for the expected lifetime, then will burn up in the atmosphere.

  • @TimothyWhiteheadzm
    @TimothyWhiteheadzm 4 місяці тому

    The renders really bothered me although I do realize they are just an 'artistic' representation. 1. The solar panels should face the sun. 2. The camera should face the earth. 3. The 'circle' would be impossible to maintain for a full orbit. 4. They are too close together, risking collisions.

  • @Hotmamasausage
    @Hotmamasausage 4 місяці тому

    Pretty neat tho

  • @Hotmamasausage
    @Hotmamasausage 4 місяці тому

    Anyone else worried that this kind of technology is gonna Segway to total global surveillance? Or like the government is gonna buy him/ suicide him to get there? Just me? Ight

  • @svken
    @svken 4 місяці тому

    It's very interesting to hear about a mapping project on this earth that covers new unmapped terrain

  • @space-time-somdeep
    @space-time-somdeep 4 місяці тому

    Love this kind of interviews.. in multiple domains of geospatial ❤

    • @mindsbehindmaps
      @mindsbehindmaps 4 місяці тому

      Thank you for writing that, I’m glad you find value in these conversations!

  • @space-time-somdeep
    @space-time-somdeep 4 місяці тому

  • @s3_build
    @s3_build 4 місяці тому

    Epic video/interview. Loved your intro

    • @mindsbehindmaps
      @mindsbehindmaps 4 місяці тому

      Thank you, really appreciate it coming from you! Ashlee was a lot of fun to talk to!

  • @spacefromspace
    @spacefromspace 5 місяців тому

    Wonderful chat guys! Always interesting to hear conversations about satellite imagery as someone who is a weird edge case/niche user 😅

  • @skyfi-app
    @skyfi-app 6 місяців тому

    What is Luke's biggest hot take?

  • @huggekarlsson
    @huggekarlsson 6 місяців тому

    Good interview and super intresting!

  • @huggekarlsson
    @huggekarlsson 6 місяців тому

    Interesting interview!

  • @henryosei6151
    @henryosei6151 6 місяців тому

    Your podcast is great and will be way greater and impactful in the coming years

    • @mindsbehindmaps
      @mindsbehindmaps 6 місяців тому

      Thanks for taking the time to say that, I'm glad you enjoy it!

  • @TommasoGritti
    @TommasoGritti 6 місяців тому

    Great interview, I very much resonate with the idea of using local knowledge to fine tune smaller embedding model is the way to empower local communities to identify/track challenges

  • @CristinaVrinceanu
    @CristinaVrinceanu 6 місяців тому

    Loved this chat! There are a few things Ryan touched on and made me smile and nod on how we need to build less bespoke and replicating, more general.

  • @MihaiArdelean-m1m
    @MihaiArdelean-m1m 6 місяців тому

    The next needed step is a map animation app. Developers have to take into account that we spend most of our time on smartphones

  • @space-time-somdeep
    @space-time-somdeep 6 місяців тому

    Love that ❤ Please do such podcast with Ujjwal Gandhi sir if possible.. I learnt so much from this two teachers ❤

  • @jefwesb
    @jefwesb 6 місяців тому

    Takk!

  • @TheEarlVix
    @TheEarlVix 7 місяців тому

    Thanks for putting this out there. It is truly inspiring and mind-blowing :-)

  • @dewijones92
    @dewijones92 7 місяців тому

    awesome

  • @proeffect454
    @proeffect454 7 місяців тому

    Hello sir. It's always great to watch your podcast and the value, information we get from your podcast is next level. I literally want to see Andrew Kramer on your podcast. Please sir invite him

  • @alessiocrepaldi5066
    @alessiocrepaldi5066 7 місяців тому

    horrible person

  • @olivermasters
    @olivermasters 8 місяців тому

    "You ask a lot of questions." Well, you are being interviewed arent you??

  • @michellevegaleiva4018
    @michellevegaleiva4018 8 місяців тому

    You should be ashamed Brian

  • @Hicaroporra
    @Hicaroporra 8 місяців тому

    THIEF!

  • @StarshipsSteel
    @StarshipsSteel 8 місяців тому

    Cool episode!

  • @Alucarddevil666
    @Alucarddevil666 8 місяців тому

    Stealing code is like trying to sneak into a coding competition with cheat sheets-it's not only unethical, but it's also a shortcut that ultimately undermines one's own growth as a programmer.