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7 links, first saved November 20, 2014, latest November 18, 2021.
- Individuals matter
The title here is the punchline, and it is a strong reminder for managers that fundamentally individuals matter. This is particularly true in technology. Humans are not a fungible…
- Willingness to look stupid
I think it is pretty hard, possibly impossible, to learn new things without appearing stupid to at least some people. It is also pretty difficult to break with a dominant trend or…
- How (some) good corporate engineering blogs are written
We took a run at doing this and struggled to get momentum around it. I share the observations made here that many (most?) of these are not all that great. At a high-level, the…
- Computer latency: 1977-2017
What a great project filled with delightful sentences like: At 144 Hz, each frame takes 7 ms. A change to the screen will have 0 ms to 7 ms of extra latency as it waits for the…
- Options vs. cash
Thorough writeup on the value of options in early stage companies. This is a topic that few understand as well as they should.
- Notes on Google's Site Reliability Engineering book
Notes on Google's Site Reliability Engineering book The book starts with a story about a time Margaret Hamilton brought her young daughter with her to NASA, back in the days of…
- Why don't schools teach debugging, or, why are we proud of how fast the STEM education pipline is leaking?
In the fall of 2000, I took my first engineering class: ECE 352, an entry-level digital design class for first-year computer engineers. It was …