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Placing a Real Value on your Time
Most of the people reading this blog are workers whose skills and experience are in demand; we'd all like to think that our time has real value, and that someone using it ought to be paying to use…
The Long Tail of Technological Solutionism
They are driven by a pervasive and dangerous ideology that I call "solutionism": an intellectual pathology that recognizes problems as problems based on just one criterion: whether they are "solvable" with a nice and clean technological…
Considering Job Offers as a New Grad
Hey, I get it. You're about to graduate as a prestigious computer engineering student from a well-known university, and you have your pick of a dozen companies to begin a career that's been glamorized to…
The Future of Games as a Service
Now that the crying from Simcity's server issues have mostly died down[1], it gives a bit of space to reflect on what happened. Maxis's always-online design decisions aside, the controversy would not have been…
Google Reader, the Silent Geek Service
I'm still a bit taken aback by the fervent response to Google's announcement that they're finally going to shut down Google Reader later this year. It has been my rock-solid replacement for Netvibes…
The Best Productivity Tools for Programmers
As engineers, we're obsessed with efficiency and productivity. From carrying around a decade's worth of configuration in an .rc file to setting up your favorite IDE to techniques like Inbox Zero to the gadgets like Fitbit,…
