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How do I get into the game industry
Every now and then someone tells me that their child loves video games and wants to get into the game industry, then asks me how...
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Making 20% Time Work
Following Google’s lead many companies have instituted “20% time” for their employees. This is one day per week in which employees can work on projects of their own choosing. The practice keeps developers motivated and sharp, produces tools to solve company problems, and in the best case creates open source which…
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How to Survive Your Project's First 100k Lines
After many years of development, the Vale compiler just hit its 100,000th line of code.
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Fred Wilson's response to "Paul Graham's Letter to YC Companies"
I don't disagree with PG when he says that Facebook's IPO performance (or lack thereof) has the potential to impact valuations in startup land. I think it will be particularly impactful on the late stage and secondary markets where most of the IPO valuation speculation is happening. But let's put Facebook's current…
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Designing a New Rust Class at Stanford: Safety in Systems Programming
Writing quality software is hard. Sometimes, software breaks in entertaining ways. However, when software runs everything from personal assistants like Alexa and Google Home to banking to elections, some bugs can be much more severe. Thi...
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Getting free of toxic tech culture
Hi, I am Valerie Aurora, systems archictecture consultant, writer, and cat appreciator. At Bow Shock Systems , I solve difficult systems problems in networking, file systems, and operating systems. In 2023 I moved permanently to Amsterdam after 20 years in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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I Don’t Want to Hire Women
Commenting on this thread is closed. If you still feel that you have something important to contribute, post your comment in this spillover thread: SPILLOVER THREAD. I don’t want to hire any more w…
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If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft (2002)
Interviewer: Now comes the part of the interview where we ask a question to test your creative thinking ability. Don’t think too hard about it, just
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My macOS keyboard shortcuts
*Not literally all, but certainly those which I find most useful, and which also might not be all that widely known.
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The State of Agile Software in 2018
Agile Software Development may be mainstream, but much of what's done is faux-agile, and we need to push back.
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Don't write on the whiteboard
Quill Grid: The Starlink for AI becomes a network. An optional, opt-in distributed AI grid where idle Quill One devices share spare capacity, earn credits, and donate AI hours.
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Fear makes you a worse programmer (2014)
Fear makes you a worse programmer
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How to increase your surface area for luck
You should just do things
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Simulacrum of Knowledge Work
How do you know the output is good without redoing the work yourself? You've received a report, a market analysis for the new product you're planning to l...
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How to Accomplish Big Things, Even When You Feel Small
“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.” — Shel Silverstein Have you ever felt like your dreams are bigger than you are? Like wanting to travel to exotic…
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How do managers get stuck? (2017)
Technology, startups, programming, technical management and software architecture
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Assholes: A Probing Examination
It's better to have a hole in your team than an asshole
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Find the Hard Work You're Willing to Do (2018)
I like this passage from John Urschel Goes Pro , about the former NFL player who is pursuing a Ph.D. in math:
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