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Eating your own dog food is the quaint name that we in the computer industry give to the process of actually using your own product. I had forgotten how well it worked, until a month ago, I took home a more...

With no one around to conduct the interview, Jon had chatted up the secretary while she tried to find someone to interview him. He was charming, well dressed, smart, and would, by her estimation, fit in well with the staff.

“Batch Files Aren’t Dead, They Just Deserve to Die”

These languages are not meant to compete in speed or complexity with their bigger cousins from the real world. On the contrary, they are deliberately very simple, as each language introduces only one or two new basic ideas. You should more...

Good software takes at least 10 years to develop because it takes programmers at least 10 years to develop good proficiency in programming and the problem domain.

Most programmers seem to be really insecure about their work. I mean: really, really insecure. I’m gathering stories that point to the fact that programmers do not want to write code out in the open.