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Thank you for introducing me to Terry Davis. I'm going to read more about him. I am definitely not talking about art. When I refer to 100x engineer, I'm referring to the impact tha…

Staff SWE at a FAANG here. Fabrice Bellard is not a 10x engineer, he is a 100x engineer. You could attach him to a good people manager and either build a team around him or allow h…

I'm down in Waikiki, Oahu. If someone wants to do a meetup on a weekend, I'll try to make it.

These articles would be of interest to anyone developing flight avionics systems for spacecraft, airplanes, or, I can imagine, drones.

Researchers traced the phishing link back to a bitly account that wasn't password protected. When they saw the other links in the account, they were able to decode the email addres…

Some great approaches here! I like the medium-like bar on the left to browse blocks. Checking the boxes next to the blocks you want to show is a neat way to make a view of just the…

I've been to India's Satish Dhawan Space Centre for work. They do a lot with the resources they have been given. The on-base museum exhibits show how their weather and communicatio…

A few points to ponder: - Money spent counts toward GDP, even if the money comes from a bank loan that will never be repaid (Example: big real estate project in a third-tier city t…

When I lived in Beijing several years ago, I interviewed a guy for a software development position. He worked for a network equipment provider (not Huawei). When I asked him about …

You could do this quickly if you just ran Android with a desktop skin.

I met a local Chinese guy in Beijing several years ago who knew the Red Flag people. Based on what he told me, it sounded like Red Flag positioned themselves as the official Linux …

Yes, I guess 'barbecue pit' isn't a good choice of words. I was referring to the street vendors who sell barbecue meat, etc. The ones near my home seem to be shut down. http://inha…

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Fair question. My impression here in Beijing is that people are highly dissatisfied with the pollution situation. They don't want lung cancer and they don't want their kids breathi…

I think "Communist" is a bit of a loaded word that in the my American mind is more linked to Stalin and Lenin than Mao and Deng, so I try to stay away from it. It's probably much m…

Does he mean the probability is lower or the impact is lower? Because I'm okay with a bank failing, so long as it doesn't need a government bail-out to keep it from bringing down t…

Two assumptions: 1. An encryption system is only as secure as its weakest link 2. The NSA can get the source whether its open or closed. I imagine the NSA would task a team of rese…

Xiaomi's founder, Lei Jun, is an experienced Internet entrepreneur, and Xiaomi's management has a number of ex-Google China and ex-Motorola China folks. So, as a tech entrepreneur …

I recall reading that back in the good old days at HP, they would split a group into two groups once it grew to over 100 people. This discussion of Dunbar's number gives some usefu…

The numbers I've heard here in China are three weeks from the factory door to a warehouse on the West Coast of the USA (don't forget loading/unloading and time clearing customs). T…

I love the phrase, "Better done than done better." It's suitable for many situations in life. In the last few months, I've been running my life off a weekly task list that includes…

Here's the follow-up article on TechCrunch talking with the guy who tweeted this explaining why the fact Jobs threw away the UI isn't such a big deal: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03…

Great that Rovio makes the fact that Angry Birds was their 52nd game part of their mythology. Every time I read a glossy write-up, I find myself wishing they'd dig a bit deeper int…

In my best Commander Tigh voice: "Looks like exactly the kind of code a Cylon would write, to me."

Here is how we are trying to fix TV with HTML5 video support, so any video web site can get on TVs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpBZ1xdcC1Q The folks at PandoDaily ran a nice ar…