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Working Too Much is Hurting Your Productivity
I’m very pleased with how it went. Ignite Philly was a ton of fun, had a bunch of great speakers,… Read more > “Go the Fuck Home” – my Ignite talk
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,748 posts.
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Attention to Detail
Software Executive, Presenter, Dad.
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A profitable, growing, useful, legal, well-loved... failure
. Not the kind of log I meant.
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How to explain your game to an asshole
Hello! I'm Tom. I'm a game designer, writer, and programmer on Gunpoint , Heat Signature , and Tactical Breach Wizards . Here's some more info on all the games I've worked on, here are the videos I make on YouTube, and here are two short stories I wrote for the Machine of Death collections.
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Open-plan offices must die
There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.
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The one interview question I always ask
I’ve just gotten past a peak interviewing period where I would interview 3-5 engineering and product management candidates every week. I’ve used this question for as long as I’ve …
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Hacking is Important
Back in the early 90s, Borland International was the place to be an engineer. Coming off the purchase of Ashton-Tate, Borland was the third largest software com
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I'm not a "curator"
Curator’s Code is an attempt to codify and standardize “via” links and attribution from link blogs and aggregators with two new symbols:
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Rabbit holes: Why being smart hurts your productivity
##The geek’s Achille’s Heel I recently decided practice my algorithms skills everyday by working through Skiena’s Algorithm Design Manual and doing some Interview Street problems. To make it somewhat more interesting I decided to do all the exercises and problems in Haskell.
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It's not a talent shortage, it's a hiring problem
I just started a new job at Microsoft and the hiring process has been on my mind a lot lately. I read articles on the Internet and hear people talking about how hard it is to find good development ...
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Learning from competition
I experimented with custom fonts in Instapaper last year, but my efforts fizzled out. Before iOS 5, rendering custom fonts in a UIWebView on iOS was extremely buggy and slow. And nearly all of my licensing inquiries to font foundries went unanswered, so I couldn’t legally ship any of the fonts I wanted even if I could…
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What if doing your best -- at what you're best at -- isn't enough?
There’s a pitcher who’s in Mets Major League camp that’s staying at my hotel. It doesn’t seem appropriate to say his name and it doesn’t much matter for the sake of th…
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I’m an Engineer, Not a Compiler
The less sexy (but very important!) side of the data sciences, every Tuesday morning. Click to read Counting Stuff, by Randy Au, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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