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In a fairly popular blog post, Raganwald advocates against using various heuristics while filtering out resumes. For the most part, I agree with him. Since it's hard to find good programmers, false negatives are very costly compared to the cost of a false positive (a wasted interview). But I have …
So I’m checking my blog on the hotel wifi, like ya do, and I notice something a little off with the style. There’s a dark colored bar at the top of the page that shouldn’t be there. That’s funny. Maybe a recent Firefox update changed how they treat CSS?
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So you've decided to leave academia, or are perhaps just thinking about doing so. Welcome to the dark side. I made the transition a few years ago, and since then I've gotten a number of questions about how to do it. Hence, this article. First of all, I'm going to …
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Whenever I see code that asks what the native byte order is, it's almost certain the code is either wrong or misguided. And if the native b...
“So the site’s pretty simple, all it needs to do is X, Y and Z. You seem like a good programmer so I’m sure it will only take you a few days to put it toge
Seedlauncher is a smart entity in the VentureOS network — built to create real value in its vertical, connected to specialized agents and a shared economy.
Unicode can be confusing. Here’s a “just the facts I need” presentation about how to handle it correctly.
I noticed there are no MSVC examples in there — was it not a targeted compiler? If so, I’m curious as to why.
Remember when I blogged about linear read scalability out to 32 cores ? Well, the awesome Nate Boley provided me with access to his brand n...
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