Java is not a first-class citizen in Linux distributions. We generally have decent coverage for Java libraries, but lots of Java software is not packaged at all, or packaged in alternate repositori…
Mark Suster has a post about improving civility on YCombinator’s Hacker News: I’ve seen vitriolic responses on HN on several occasion. I mostly get hammered on HN if I writ…
Happy 1st birthday, Go!
Fri, 17 Mar 2002, 14:00 "Hey Alphonse," Jerry called as I walked by, "let's do a bit of practice. I've got a kata I'd like to show you." ...
A forum moderated by author and artist Edward Tufte, including discussion and questions dealing with information design.
Update: Modern Perl: the book is out! Skip the draft and download the real thing. I've finished writing and editing Modern Perl: The Book, and it's gone into production, which means that Onyx Neon is preparing a print-ready PDF to...
First, some background. I grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico... OK, wait a minute, you don't need that much background. In the beginning there was Stack Overflow. When we set up Stack Overflow, we knew people would use it to ask questions about lots and lots of different programming topics. Instead of the traditional…
The current system of cancer research has failed us. It's time we begin funding the "renegade" blue-chip scientists whose research shows real promise.
If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. The collap…
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An article by John Doerr had a great quote from technology luminary Alan Kay that every entrepreneur needs to remember “ The best way to predict the future is to invent it. ”
The High Falls hike was my first with the Vancouver branch of the Alpine Club...
Does notation shape our thinking? Kenneth Iverson was a mathematician who is most famous for designing APL. This was the name of his programming language, and it cleverly stood for “A Program…
Every founder struggles to find a great name for her company; I sure did! In some ways it's important to pick a good name, but in my experience a lot of it isn't as important as some people would have you believe.
