TummelVision 61: Dion Almaer on the revelation that code is produced by human beings
- Author
- Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deborah Schultz
- Published
- Mon 18 Apr 2011
- Episode Link
- http://tummelvision.tv/2011/04/18/tummelvision-61-dion-almaer/
This week’s guest is technologist and “human dev aggregator” Dion Almaer (@dalmaer). Founder of Ajaxian.com and the just-launched FunctionSource, he has worked at companies such as Google (where he worked with Kevin), Mozilla, and Palm. He is now working at a new startup called Set Direction with his long term business partner Ben Galbraith.
In this episode, Dion reveals the shocking truth he has discovered from years of tummeling programmers: code is produced by humans. Dion talks with Deb and Kevin (Heather is performing at a gig)about communities and conflicts among coders, Twitter gossip, controlling our data, online “enchantment,” and more.
While you listen, you can follow the smart comments from our lively chat room by replaying the CoveritLive discussion.
News and Notes
- The Twitter pile-on – as aggregated by Techmeme
- A sense of bewronging – Doc Searls
- Nobodies: The New Somebodies – Josh McHugh at Forbes.com
- In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives – a new book by Steven Levy
- Jane! Stop This Crazy Thing! – Clay and Susan Griffith on “The Jetsons” and dystopia at Tor.com
- The Tragic Death of the Flip – David Pogue at The New York Times
