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What couldn't you ship? 28 Jul 2013 | 08:00 am
Great excerpt from Jason Hong's article in this month's Communications of the ACM: The most impressive story I have ever heard about owning your research is from Ron Azuma's retrospective "So Long, a...
Big design vs simple solutions 21 Jan 2013 | 05:00 am
The distinction between essential complexity and accidental complexity is a useful one — it allows you to identify the parts of your design where you're stumbling over yourself instead of working agai...
Quick tips for getting into systems programming 19 Dec 2012 | 07:30 am
In reply Andrew (@ndrwdn) asked a great followup question to the last entry on systems programming at my alma mater: What follows are a few quick-and-general pointers on "I want to start doing lower...
Systems programming at my alma mater 14 Dec 2012 | 09:30 am
Bryan also asked me this at NodeConf last year, where I was chatting with him about the then-in-development IonMonkey: I remembered my talk with Bryan when I went to recruit there last year and asked...
ARM chars are unsigned by default 14 Nov 2012 | 08:00 pm
[Latest from the "I can't believe I'm writing a blog entry about this" department, but the context and surrounding discussion is interesting. --Ed] If you're like me, or one of the other thousands of...
Simple, selfish, and unscientific shootout 4 Jun 2012 | 09:00 am
Disclaimer I've caught some flak over publishing my "selfish" (read: empirical testing that yields results which are only relevant to me) multi-language-engine-and-standard-library "shootout" (read: ...
Committers beware 19 May 2012 | 08:00 am
Toiling away with hand swept clocks Meticulously combed-through kilo-SLOCs More and more features borne to bear, but For all continents, a continent unaware. Streams of commits slake developer thi...
Website Mania 7 May 2012 | 09:15 am
By the 1840s, a "Railroad Mania" was raging, with stocks selling on multiples of passenger miles, a precursor for multiples of page views that Yahoo stock would trade on 150 years later. An inventor n...
Using C89 in 2012 isn't crazy 1 Mar 2012 | 12:30 pm
The first group I worked with in industry wrote the compiler in C and made fun of C++ on a regular basis. The second group I worked with in industry wrote the compiler in C++ and made fun of C on occa...
Accomplish your new year's resolution of being more badass 24 Jan 2012 | 02:00 am
I know what you're going through — I've done it all before. The market is teeming with products that purport to help you meet your badassery quota. First you do the shakes. Then, you go with the bar...
