#opinion
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5 Feb 2024
10 Nov 2023
The software industry sees an interesting tension between generative AI capturing the software lifecycle and low-level languages aiming for better performance. As developers we must understand these trends and find a strategy. Learn one or both?
5 Jun 2021
We live on a street that's about 29 feet wide. There are parked cars on either side that take up about 7 feet each, which leaves 15 feet in the middle of the street for through traffic. There are hundreds or thousands of streets like this in San Francisco; here's a screenshot of one at […]
9 Sept 2020
Sometimes people choose to work for one company over another for reasons related to the work environment, for example what the company does, and whether the other employees create a place that's pleasant to work at. But a major factor is compensation. If Company A and Company B are largely comparable, but Company A offers […]
9 Apr 2015
Reddit and Duck Duck Go recently announced that they are eliminating salary negotiations, in part to help even the playing field for men and women, since men are more likely to negotiate salaries than women. Men negotiate harder than women do and sometimes women get penalized when they do negotiate. So as part of our […]
26 Sept 2012
The New York Times has a big new feature up explaining why data centers at Google, Facebook etc. waste tons of electricity. Diego Doval, a former CTO at a popular startup, skewers the NYT with a 5,000 word critique of the factual inaccuracies in the post. Doval is right on with his critique, but there's […]
6 Apr 2012
[I hope that it’s obvious from what follows that this is a statement of personal opinion, not an official Mozilla document.] Summary Mitchell Baker recently wrote: If we start to try to make “Mozilla” mean “those people who share not only the Mozilla mission but also my general political / social / religious / environmental … Continue reading "Community and…