Marty and Victoria talk through a grab bag of things, including common programmer mistakes, hackathons, and maintaining work-life balance.

What Victoria’s up to

• More plumbing code

• Curling has begun! Victoria throwing a stone in 2013.

What Marty’s up to

• Marty has launched Code Step By Step! Check out these programming practice problems~

Thumbs-up, thumbs-down

A return of the segment where we give a “quick” up or down vote to nerdy or tangentially technical phenomenon!

• Game of Thrones
• Peanuts Movie - yasssss review look good!
• Steam Machines
• The winky-face emoticon ;) and emoji
• 2-factor authentication e.g. for gmail

Discussion: Software engineering topics

• Code complexity and noob programmer mistakes
  • The Single Biggest Mistake Programmers Make Every Day… allegedly
• Hackathons
  • How to survive a Hackathon
  • Hackathons Have a Gender Problem
• Work-life balance
  • Tech Pros’ Quest for Work-Life Balance

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