I walk every evening my dog, listening to a pod, or sometimes even 2 (I can take long walks after a day in front of a screen)

Mostly Tuesday evening a new Coder Radio was in my pod app. I had my special hiking round for this. It was great. I miss it.

I have only found this podcast this winter or spring and it quickly became one of my favorite, and definitely top 1 coding show. And when you started doing a series on 7 languages in 7 weeks Coder Radio's new episodes became the most anticipated ones for me. Well, I didn't anticipate this one.

Damn I feel gutted, it is so sad listening to the outro. I wish you'd rather go for a hiatus than end the show. Thanks for everything and I wish Michael and Wes success in other projects but I'm not deleting this feed yet and hope the show will come back sometime in the future :)

In regards to learning a programming language, I have a quote for you.

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." -Walt Disney

The skills you learn in any language will help you in another. Forget the language fanboys and just get started.

Hey Guys,

We're adding a new segment to the show -- Coding challenges. Basically, every week there is a regular episode I'm going to announce a coding challenge here.

Solutions should be submitted to the subreddit in the form of Gists. These challenges should be doable in about 30 mins or less.

These challenges are meant to be on the easy to intermediate scale and are going to be evaluated on more than just correctness.

Areas we award points for:

• Creative Solution

• Easily understood solution -- Could a Jr Dev read your code and understand it given 30 minute or so?

• Performance

• General Coolness

Unless specifically stated you can use any language / platform you like. However, if you use something esoteric please include instructions on how to compile and run the solution.

Every month Chris and I will pick a winner and they will get a Coder Radio mug!

Sound like fun?

Here's our first challenge:

Assuming a standard 52 card deck write me a BlackJack helper that advises the user on the correct play (Hit, Stand, Double, or Split) as suggested by the basic strategy.

Assume that the player is playing 1 on 1 with the dealer.

Here is the basic strategy chart for reference: http://www.blackjack-chart.com/

Any takers?

A new Coder Radio is OUT: http://bit.ly/coder252

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I listened to CR-136 today and was a little disappointed that Chris decided not to seriously consider Python as the language he will learn during his 'coding journey'. While Ruby, Go, and Rust, are all very capable languages, I think Chris should seriously take a second look at Python.

First, Python has an amazing community. There's virtually never a question you can ask that someone isn't going to give you a good, solid, answer and they will often include code examples to show you how to do it or at least get you started.

Second, the Python community is huge. While this can also be said about the Ruby community, I've never felt that that community was as well-rounded and mature as the Python one. Community goes a long way.

Third, Python has a 'battaries included' approach to life. Whatever you want to do, Python likely has a module that will allow you to do it simply, elegantly, and reliably. Because of this, you end up writing a lot less code than you would in other languages and the code you do write is often higer quality since you're usually just hooking into well defined functions instead of navigating through tons of your own code.

Lastly, I feel that learning Ruby when most of what Chris wants to do is system admin type things (with the occassional web thing) is like deciding to learn PHP for that task. Python just 'feels' like a bit better fit for shell stuff while, IMHO, Ruby has always felt a bit 'cludgy' in that space.

I know Chris mentioned that one of the reasons he discounted Python was that he wasn't passionate about it. I'd say this should be more of a practical matter than a passion one. He's not wanting to become a pro developer or even necessairly release code to others. He just wants to create some tools for his own use and maybe share it with others a bit later. Why not get a solid language under his belt then, once he has the basics of writing good code down, include Ruby or Go or Rust later? Why make it harder to learn to code instead of starting at a dead easy point then building on it?

In the end, I'm glad Chris is learning to code at all. It's a skill everyone can benefit from. I just wanted to be 'that guy' who came to the defense of an awesome language.

Walter B. 5:27 PM Hi there, thanks for contacting Google Play Developer Support!

There will be a short survey at the end of our chat so you can provide feedback on the service I'm providing.

Please give me a moment while I review your issue. This chat is no longer off the record

Walter B. 5:29 PM

I understand you're concerned about adding your physical address. How can we help?

me 5:30 PM As I understand it, all the information will be public no matter what. Is this true?

Walter B. 5:31 PM That's right. The information entered into the address field will be shown on all your apps on Google Play to all Google Play users.

me 5:31 PM There is no way to conceal this?

Walter B. 5:31 PM As it's a legal requirement, that is correct. It cannot be hidden.

me 5:32 PM If I take the ability to purchase anything new, can I avoid needing to publish my address?

Walter B. 5:33 PM Can you clarify what you mean by taking the ability to purchase anything new?

me 5:35 PM I would take out m donations area, I have people have made purchases merely to take out the advertisements. If I let those who have it already have it, and not let anymore in

Walter B. 5:37 PM Unfortunately, we're unable to comment on the compliance of that implementation. Please speak with your legal representative on the different types of information that can be used and in what circumstances. I'm sorry we can't be of more help.

Did you have any other questions I can help with today?

me 5:38 PM Well, being as you are now stepping on the backs of the developers who made android a success, I need you to remove SQLite Installer from Root from the store.

Walter B. 5:38 PM I'd be happy to see if this app is eligible for deletion. Please give me a moment.

me 5:39 PM Also, Fade Live Donation 8.2

Walter B. 5:40 PM Unfortunately, we will be unable to delete any of your apps as they all have at least 1 install. This is so that we are in compliance with the Terms of Service which requires users be provided with unlimited reinstalls. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

me 5:40 PM I know it's not your fault, but I would like to escalate this.

Walter B. 5:41 PM As the manager for Google Play Developer Support, I'm sorry tot tell you there is no higher to escalate this issue.

me 5:41 PM I don't see how you can't remove it, if you are going to remove it anyhow for not putting my address in.

Walter B. 5:43 PM Unfortunately, I can't comment on any actions that may or may not happen in the case an account is not in compliance with the new address requirement.

Is there anything else I can assist you with today?

me 5:44 PM Is there anyone above you that can complete the tasks or comment on this that will let themselves be bothered?

Walter B. 5:45 PM I'm sorry, but there is no one above me. Regardless, our terms of service require that unlimited reinstalls must be provided to users and therefore we are absolutely unable to delete apps with installs. This is a system requirement for which there is no workaround.

me 5:47 PM Well I know that is not true, as years ago there was a N64 emulator. This was removed from my apps as re-installable, even though I had paid for it. So in that case, I would like those records pulled and a refund provided to me on Googles dime.

Walter B. 5:49 PM I'm sorry, I'm unable to comment on the policy actions taken against other apps or developers. Be advised that any perceived compliance or non-compliance of other developers’ apps has no bearing on the compliance of your own apps or account.

Did you have any other issues I can assist you with today?

me 5:50 PM Nope, I will be sending this to podcasts.

Walter B. 5:51 PM Ok. I'm very sorry we can't be of more help.

Have a great rest of your day!

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Hey Guys,

I started a new podcast about automation (a big thing for me) and I just wanted to share it here in case that any of your were interested. :)

https://www.automator.show/

The show is completely run by me at the moment, it's lined up with my new product Rabbot, but it is not intended to be a commercial for that but rather a multi-disciplinary look at automation and society.

Hope you all like it!

-- Mike

Time to move on. What other development focused podcasts do folks recommend?

After listening to the cr 125, I thought I would start a thread for people to chuck there format ideas in.

Personally I recognise the JB community has being very GNU+Linux focused, that may just be because the more vocal members are just GNU+Linux guys, not just GNU+Linux users but passionate people with strong opinions. These opinions can be construed as being hostile to anything that's not free software, but this is restrictive.

New listeners will often assume that the community is largely neck beards who can't cope with non free. That's simply not true and if we stopped pretending to be RMS style purists; I admit to exaggerating the importance of my freedoms on occasions. This is why I am hesitant to the suggested of an open mumble room.

If a mumble segment was to be incorporated show, it would require more screen than simply 'push to talk chrisLAS mum', and that's a lot of work. People would have to be trusted not to just dog on a topic like c#.net, we need to grow up.

I suggest that in such a segment the topic would have to be disclosed before hand, to a selected group of mumblers -that could be hand picked from T3 and lup. I suggest this because as someone who often participate in T3, I fined my self forming an opinion on the spot, were given some notice more refined opinions could be formed and better discussion could be had.

I don't listen to cr for in depth debates on weather template meta programming is implemented well in c++ or how to bet make use of entity framework in a large scale web application. It's not that kind of show and that kind of show wouldn't be appealing to me as it would just turn into a ego fight:"My /dev/null has faster writes than your postgresql server."

Coder radio is a bisdev dev culture show it's about the common issues that effect the profession of software development. A medium through which we can pick up tips and tricks on how to deal with awkward clients, and keeping mentally sane. It is important for someone young and inexperienced like me, to hear situations and how other people have dealt with them.

I compare this aspect to the techsnap war stories, they show real life situations, so the audience can develop and idea of how they might avoid them. I suggest that user submitted war stories for cr would be great, although they could be rather client sensitive.

Interviews are great to keep in the loop of new ideas from people who know what they are talking about. The problem is getting interviews with people how as both competent public speakers and able to explain there cause in technical, but not over technical terms. If someone makes a cool library for fluid dynamics I want to know how to use it and what the performance is like, but I don't care to much about 3d calculus.

If I want to know more about a topic I can do the research myself. Coder radio is a good introduction to why I might want, use or do something.

I really didn't intend to write so much; sorry.

I was an avid listener until the Podcasting 2.0 stuff. Really looking forward to what the future holds.