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Here’s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.

OUTLINE:

0:00 – Introduction

4:45 – Irrational numbers

8:04 – Math and programming

10:36 – Coding style

14:41 – First computer

23:54 – Lisp

27:22 – Write an Emacs implementation in C

35:15 – Early days of the Internet

45:57 – Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos

56:13 – Work hard and smart

58:48 – Open source

1:10:25 – Java

1:28:31 – Java virtual machine

1:44:05 – Android

1:47:04 – Advice