Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

The U.S. Department of Justice filed suit against Google on Tuesday, alleging the company unlawfully maintained a monopoly in search and search advertising. The antitrust action was the most significant since the DOJ's case against Microsoft, and is sure to send ripples through Silicon Valley where Facebook, Apple, and Amazon will be paying close attention since they might be next.

To talk about what it all means, Yelp's senior vice president of public policy Luther Lowe joined the Big Technology Podcast on extremely short notice. Lowe has been pushing the case against Google forward for years, and his on the ground perspective can help shed light on what's at stake and what comes next.

Mike Sarraille, CEO of EF Overwatch, former US Navy SEAL and co-author of "The Talent War," joins the show to discuss how his experiences as a special warfare operator translate into talent acquisition. We also explore ways that government can compete for top candidates and what he learned about leadership coming out of the Battle of Ramadi.

Originally from Berlin Germany, Tim Specht started programming for fun, during high school. He had no plans to make a career out it - in fact, he wanted to become an experimental physicist. When the startup scene in Berlin started to pick up pace, Tim got interested. His first couple of gigs were in mobile engineering, which influenced him to continue to pursue startups further. Now a days, he is a dog foster-er - that is, he rotates dogs through his apartment in Brooklyn, taking are of their special needs while a good home is found for them.

In 2014, he and his co-founders had been experimenting with video and music related apps, tinkering with creation inside of the different mediums - for example, integrating with the iTunes library. And then, of course, sharing those creations with friends. They realized that the features they were creating were too complex for most users... but the ones they created for themselves - just for kicks - were the most interesting pieces of tech. So they spent some time scrapping the complex features, and centering around the short, quick, fun video creation to share.

This is the creation story of Dubsmash.

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Links

• https://dubsmash.com/
• https://medium.com/@tspecht
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-specht/

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You can find Kelsey on Twitter here. His Github is here. His personal journey with Kubernetes is detailed in a nice piece here.

Kelsey has an interesting role at Google. He sits at the director level but is an independent contributor with no direct reports. Instead he works to help galvanize interest in particular tools and topics, driving adoption at a broad scale. 

• No, Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux
• Removing “Annoying” Windows 10 Features is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says
• mescon/Muximux: A lightweight way to manage your HTPC
• Devilbox
• The PHPUgly Anthem

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Topics covered in this episode:

• Introducing DigitalOcean App Platform
• Announcing Playwright for Python
• Asynchronously Opening and Closing Files in asyncio
• Excel: Why using Microsoft's tool caused Covid-19 results to be lost
• locust.io
• Fixing Hacktoberfest
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/203

That skit made it to the front page of Reddit, and was soon seen across the internet. It's nice to make people laugh, but following the surge of interest, Emily also had to deal with severe harassment and cyber stalking. She wrote a piece about the experience which you can find here.

In this episode, we discuss how moderation can be improved and the work that remains to be done to make the software industry feel safe and inclusive for everyone.