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Update (August 11, 2011): Thanks to everyone who offered useful feedback! I uploaded a slightly-revised version, adding a “note of humility” to the introduction, correcting the footnot…
Over lunch last week Mikhail Naganov (creator of the DevTools Heap Profiler ) and I were discussing how invaluable it has been to have the ...
How to become a good theoretical physicist
Interviewing software engineers is hard. Jeff Atwood bemoans how difficult it is to find candidates who can write code. The tech press sporadically publishes “best” interview questions …
This is about the “secret ingredient” in my EXE packer kkrunchy, which was used in our (Farbrausch) 64k intros starting from “fr-030: Candytron”, and also in a lot of other …
Sometimes it’s not the obvious things that create the biggest problems. In this case one of the hidden job killers in our economy today is the explosion of patent litigation.
This page is slowly getting outdated. In my spare time, I've been working on a major syntax revision, Firefox compatibility issues and a new version of this page.
Working at a daycare has shown me many things and given me much insight into how children behave, and more specifically, how they learn. The kids that I work with are so incredibly eager to learn,…
UPDATE: This is now the topic of my South by Southwest proposal. Please go vote for and comment on it here. We're not going to have a jobless recovery....
There are few articles on the design of command-line interfaces (CLIs), even if plenty of articles on designing graphical user interfaces (GUIs) exist. This article is an attempt at presenting some of the most important guidelines for CLI design.
When I was in my 20’s, I was taught the relationship between marketing and sales over a bonfire. — Over thirty years ago, before the arrival of the personal computer, there were desktop compu…
a bliki entry for Software Patent
UPDATE: Jay Radcliffe, the researcher discussed in this post, has emailed me, a ...
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How is Google’s argument here different than simply demanding that Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, *et al* should simply sit back and let Google do whatever it wants with Android, regardless of the patents they hold?
