Hi ProductHunt! Descriptive is an interview podcast in which me (@kahliltweets) and @hglattergotz interview programmers about their origin story. We find out how they got interested in computers and programming and then let them take us on a journey from that point to today. In this episode we interviewed Jafar Husain who has started programming as a kid by batch programming Doom and then later on worked for Microsoft to then bring Reactive Programming to Netflix where he invented Falcor within the last 3 years. I believe this is one of our best episodes ever because Jafar is such a good story teller and his story is absolutely fascinating on top of that. If you are interested in programming you will love this episode! Here are the show notes and the timeline for your convenience: Kahlil and Henning talk to Jafar Husain about his origin story. If you listen to any episode of Descriptive make it this one! This is the must-listen story in which Jafar takes us from batch programming Doom to writing JavaScript on the server before anyone else to many "failures" and victories to finally creating Falcor at Netflix which brings together all the lessons he learned along the way. Highlights [00:00:00] Pre-show [00:03:50] Kahlil introduces Jafar Husain [00:04:09] Batch programming to run Doom on 486SX [00:05:11] Turing the programming language [00:08:58] First contact with JavaScript [00:15:57] Writing JavaScript on the server [00:20:46] Meta programming in JavaScript [00:22:27] .NET [00:24:36] Learning non-programming skills [00:34:10] Microsoft Office Platform for Software Development [00:41:48] A programming language is yet another tool [00:44:27] Getting into the web at Blast Radius [00:45:54] Paradigm shifts - Data is Code and Code is Data [01:07:00] Getting on the Silverlight team [01:17:26] What is the difference between an Event and a Stream? [01:28:19] Bringing RX to Netflix [01:31:18] Falcor [01:49:19] You need to be a triple threat as a developer [01:58:48] Go find a great manager [01:59:37] How to externalize passion [02:05:02] Picks Link to the show: http://descriptive.audio/episode...