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That's such a great quote. Joshua Bloch's talk "How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters"[1] is one of my favorite ever [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heh4OeB9A-c

Cool spotlights! I wish I could understand French - “Le Courrier du hacker” reminds me that there's an entire world of badass French engineers that I can't really understand. The t…

Ah, yes, this is good nuance, but I would like to argue that there are intangibles that can be replicated across Gap's future spinouts. There will be aspects of the culture, certai…

Hoping on the analogy train (knowing full well that all our analogies will be somewhat imperfect because this tech is unprecedented). I don't think it's like a stock split or a div…

I'm impressed that Stripe has been able to maintain it's culture over the years, as it grows in headcount and size. I recall reading this blog from 2012 (although I read it in 2014…

At a certain point - people are weighing the cost of the good (cable bundle, HBO Now, etc) vs the moral guilt + expected value of litigation (costs of piracy). When the cost is not…

"A lot of the best programmers and the most productive programmers I know are writing everything in Clojure and swearing by it, and then just producing ridiculously sophisticated t…