Pragmatic Theories

Episode 4: Lessons in Life

Keyvan Nayyeri — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 16:17:07 +0000

Publishing this episode on my 31st birthday, I look back into my own life experiences to share the top 15 lessons I’ve learned in life and how they relate to each other and how they have shaped my character, career, and decisions.

The top three lessons are my core principles in life: importance of time, being passionate, and knowing self.

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Episode 3: Immigration

Keyvan Nayyeri — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 12:29:59 +0000

I dedicate the third episode of this podcast to something that I have experienced personally in my life and has been a major topic in news and politics in the past few months: immigration.

In this episode I focus on three aspects of immigration. The first aspect is difficulty of immigration and I share a few personal stories about this. Its second aspect is the legal and political aspect of immigration and where most of the problems are originating from. And the third and last aspect of immigration is the responsibilities of immigrants in a host country and why it’s important for them to learn about the language, culture, and society.

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Episode 2: Program into Your Language, Not in It

Keyvan Nayyeri — Sun, 06 Sep 2015 11:46:43 +0000

In the second episode I talk about one of my favorite parts of Code Complete book titled “Program into Your Language, Not in It” which essentially emphasizes on the importance of being able to solve any problem in any language.

I provide some general discussions about why there are many similarities between modern programming languages (regardless of their paradigm or type system) and why it’s important to focus on problem solving rather than programming languages themselves.

In addition, I talk about why I prefer to use open source programming languages since jobs for such languages and platforms tend to give more respect to and put more emphasis on the people who build software.

This episode is concluded with a short discussion on type systems and why I personally prefer statically typed languages even though dynamically typed languages are as great.

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Episode 1: Kicking Off

Keyvan Nayyeri — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 18:00:27 +0000

Hello and welcome to Pragmatic Podcast, a podcast hosted by me about technology, software engineering, lifestyle, and other topics.

In this first episode, I introduce myself, this podcast, and why I decided to return to online content publishing after a few years.

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