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	Podcast:		Developer On Fire
	Episode:		Episode 158 \| Carin Meier - Biogeekery and Identity
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		00:31:21
	Publish Date:		2016-08-21 19:00:00
	Description:		Guest: Carin Meier @gigasquid Carin Meier talks with Dave Rael about priorities, learning new things, and the importance of having an identity outside what you do for a living Carin started off as a professional ballet dancer, studied Physics in college, and has been developing software for both the enterprise and entrepreneur ever since. She has a thing for Clojure and can be usually found with a cup of tea in her hand, hacking on her Roomba, AR Drone, or any other robots that happen to be nearby. She hails from Cincinnati, where she works remotely as a developer for Cognitect, and also helps organize the Cincinnati Functional Programmers user group. Chapters: 0:57 - Dave introduces the show and Carin Meier 2:49 - The origin of gigasquid 3:38 - The things that "light Carin up" 4:26 - Carin's interest in the interface between the physical and the soft worlds 5:29 - Biological computing and slime molds 7:42 - Carin's path to software through physics 10:46 - Carin's introduction to Clojure 11:54 - How Carin got started in software 12:47 - Carin's story of failure - identity tied up in ballet - a lesson learned in application of the term developer to self 15:25 - Carin's success story - motivated by team - advice for fixing teams 18:11 - Carin's thoughts on having "made it" 19:22 - How Carin stays current with what she needs to know 21:05 - Bio-inspired ways of looking at systems 23:32 - The things that have Carin most excited 24:30 - Carin's causes of pain and suffering 26:01 - The things about which Carin likes to geek out 27:59 - Carin's current relationship with ballet 28:40 - Carin's prediction for the future of software 29:15 - Motivations for functional programming 29:44 - Carin's top 3 tips for delivering code 30:26 - Keeping up with Carin Resources: Living Clojure - Carin Meier Carin's Blog 2013: Carin Meier, "The Joy of Flying Robots with Clojure" Code from the "Joy of Flying Robots" presentation Carin's book recommendation: Physarum Machines: Computers From Slime Mould (Volume 74) - Andrew Adamatzky Carin's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Thought over code People over process Feeback, feeback, feeback
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