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I am the COO of Salesforce. Two of the top ten jobs on Indeed are Salesforce Admin and Salesforce Developer, and the jobs are distributed around the world. We have a ton of stories…

One of the best quotes in the Google quotes file an early Googler maintained (I am sure I am screwing it up): “I’ve heard of defensive programming, but never adversarial memory.” —…

Everyone says that but I have not experienced it. In practice, I think this impacts backend extension developers more than people targeting LLVM IR. My experience covers version 7-…

As someone who writes a lot of toy languages, I made this scaffolding for a LLVM-based compiler: https://github.com/finiteloop/compiler It uses Bison and Flex for parsing and lexin…

At FriendFeed, when we first introduced real-time comments and likes (pretty sure we were the first social network to do this), we did it with long-polling via an iFrame because we…

People file lawsuits when companies have filed for IPO because generally that leads to companies being in a "quiet period" in which they cannot effectively respond publicly, which …

Developer documentation is here: https://quip.com/dev/ The APIs to build Live Apps enable real-time coediting and online / offline syncing with no special code; you get a ton for "…

Minifying alone is "kind of" important, and the benefits are hard to measure precisely with the combination of gzip, http/2, and the plethora of other network optimizations. Howeve…

Our documents are broken into lots of smaller components we call sections. So, in a billeted lost, each list item is its own section. Sections have a GUID and can be modified witho…

In general, if the subject includes "science" in the name, it probably isn't actually science. Political, data, social, etc. No chemist needs to say they study "chemical science."