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There is no place for just shitting all over other people's work
“Shit from the fucking Mac App Store, ‘designed’ by people who think they get interface design.” That’s the byline for Read the fucking HIG, a blog that pretends to expose apps in the Mac App Store which violate Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines. Let’s t…
Technical job post tips for the desperate
For software engineering jobs, most companies, especially startups, just can't find qualified candidates, even after tapping their networks. If you're one of these companies who has more trouble...
Steve Jobs Understands Team Building
Richard Bejtlich's blog on digital security, strategic thought, and military history.
What Microsoft gets for $2 billion
As a follow up to my post on Microsoft and Creative Destruction, it’s worth looking at this chart (from Silicon Alley Insider). It shows the quarterly operating expenses for Microsoft’s…
Day in the life of a Googler (Matt Welsh)
I was thinking recently about how different my workdays are now that I'm at Google, compared to the faculty job at Harvard. The biggest diff...
Having a launched product is hard
Over the last 6 months, we have been learning what it means to support a launched product.
Why You Need To Work For A Big Company
There are lots of lists around these days So in the interests of balance I think it is time for some anti-lists Here is my 7 things I am glad I did
How To Handle Lawyers Threatening You
(No joke. This is actually how I deal with a lawyers. This isn't just theory, this is my experience.) Have you ever seen the movie "Monsters Inc."? It's a cute animated Disney film about Big Scary Monsters. All day long they go through magical doors, each leading into a bedroom of a young child sleeping
Aza Raskin Leaving Mozilla
Since the beta version of Mozilla's Firefox, I've been a devotee. It became my go-to web browser in 2004. In addition to being open-source, it was far
So long, and thanks for the Ph.D.
A guide to surviving graduate school, from the perspective of what I wished I had known at the start but had to learn the hard way instead.