Surviving Conventional Wisdom

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Surviving Conventional Wisdom

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82 minutes

Released:

Aug 15, 2022

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Podcast episode

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Bryan, Adam, and Steve consider nuggets of conventional wisdom that turn out to be turds.

Released:

Aug 15, 2022

Format:

Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Oxide hosts a weekly Twitter Space where we discuss a wide range of topics: computer history, startups, Oxide hardware bringup, and other topics du jour. These are the recordings in podcast form. Join us Mondays at 5pm PT for an hour or so to catch us live.

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Engineering Culture: Building a strong, virtuous engineering culture is hard. No silver bullets in this Twitter Space, but plenty of pitfalls to avoid. by Oxide and Friends
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Mr. Leventhal, Come here I want to see you by Oxide and Friends
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from /proc to proc_macro by Oxide and Friends
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NeXT, Objective-C, and contrasting histories by Oxide and Friends
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What's a bug? What's a debugger? by Oxide and Friends
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The Wrath of Kahn by Oxide and Friends
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Economics and Open Source by Oxide and Friends
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The Showstopper Show by Oxide and Friends
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The Pragmatism of Hubris by Oxide and Friends
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Theranos, Silicon Valley, and the March Madness of Tech Fraud by Oxide and Friends
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A brief history of talking computers by Oxide and Friends
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Trolltron, Assemble!: Unable to resist the call of Trolltron, Bryan and Adam are forced to discuss an odious tweet that undervalues education, struggle, and experience while aggrandizing youth and advocating exploitativeness... at least, in our opinion... by Oxide and Friends
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The Books in the Box by Oxide and Friends
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The episode formerly known as ℔ by Oxide and Friends
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Silicon Cowboys by Oxide and Friends
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Ukraine: Russia's illegal war in Ukraine has created a humanitarian crisis. For those of us in tech, how can we help? Bryan and Adam talk to Andrey Akselrod, CTO at People.ai, and Ukrainian ex-pat about the crisis, the background, and ways to help. by Oxide and Friends
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Agile + 20 by Oxide and Friends
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The Oxide Supply Chain: Kate Hicks from Oxide operations joins to talk about the supply chain meltdown, war stories from the past, and the innovative ways she and her team have charted a steady course through these turbulent waters by Oxide and Friends
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Barracuda 7200.11: broken firmware is broken software! by Oxide and Friends
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Coder's Block by Oxide and Friends
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Dijkstra's Tweetstorm by Oxide and Friends
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Supercomputers, Cray, and How Sun Picked SGI's Pocket by Oxide and Friends
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Put the OS back in OSDI by Oxide and Friends
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On Code Review by Oxide and Friends
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I Know This! (Purpose-built systems with general-purpose guts): Purpose-built systems, computing appliances, are typically built around or on top of general purpose systems. In this week's Twitter Space we look at how those similarities can lead customers to accidental calamity. by Oxide and Friends
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Docker, Inc., an Early Epitaph by Oxide and Friends
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The Sidecar Switch by Oxide and Friends
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Surviving Conventional Wisdom

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