Marty and Victoria give their take on Secret Santa, Bitcoin, Gigster, and other fun stuff going on this week. There’s the return of the thumbs-up thumbs up segment, and they end on a discussion about career mentorship: what, why, and how.

What Marty’s up to

• Turning in course grades and crushing dreams
• Marty’s students, upon receiving a B:
  

What Victoria’s up to

• Ran the office Secret Santa!
• Aftermath of publishing my article!

Thumbs-up, Thumbs-down

• Secret Santa, White Elephant, etc
• Bitcoin
• Silicon Valley the show
  • these are not the doors of a billionaire, richard
• New Star Trek (trailer)

News Roundup

I've been using Vim for about 2 years now, mostly because I can't figure out how to exit it.

— I Am Devloper (@iamdevloper) February 17, 2014

• Microsoft open sources Visual Studio
  • What IDEs do you use?
    • Victoria: vim + tmux; Eclipse (+ vim plugin) for Android
    • Marty: Eclipse, IntelliJ, QtCreator
• Yahoo becoming holding company for Alibaba shares; Yahoo eliminates QA/test
  • Yahoo’s Engineers Move to Coding Without a Net
  • Yahoo wants to spin off Yahoo, become a holding company for Alibaba shares
  • Read a Yahoo Investor’s 99-Page Turnaround Plan
• Gigster wants to be the Uber of software development
  • Software Eats Software Development As Andreessen Invests $10M In App Outsourcer Gigster
  • Gigster
• Bitcoin news
  • Bitcoin Hits Highest Levels Since Late 2014
  • Bitcoin’s Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably This Unknown Australian Genius

Discussion: Mentorship

We got a wonderful listener question about mentorship!

• Is mentorship important?
• How often do you meet, what do you discuss, who have you picked?
• Yoda, the ultimate mentor
  

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