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  The One Thing Every Software Engineer Should Know I'm a huge Steve Yegge fan, so It was a great honor to have Steve Yegge on a recent Stack Overflow podcast . One thing I couldn't have predicted, however, was one particular theme of Steve's experience at Google and Amazon that kept coming... Posted Oct 23 2008, 12:59 AM by Coding Horror Feeds Filed under: google, programming language, amazon, steve yegge, hard core, nutshell, stack overflow, format books, saatchi, seth godin, executive creative director, paul arden, human communication, intermediate level course, paying attention, weasel, advertising firm, marketer, core marketing, timeless sense

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  Obscenity Filters: Bad Idea, or Incredibly Intercoursing Bad Idea? I'm not a huge fan of The Daily WTF for reasons I've previously outlined . There is, however, the occasional gem -- such as this one posted by ezrec: Browsing through a web archive of some old computer club conversations, I ran across this sentence... Posted Oct 21 2008, 12:59 AM by Coding Horror Feeds Filed under: google, time one, new software, software developer, wtf, old computer, dictionary, computer club, echo chamber, shiner, web archive, web legend, redundancy, google returns, visionary, silliness, open web, bluegrass world, manifestation, steam engine

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  The Importance of Sitemaps So I've been busy with this Stack Overflow thing over the last two weeks. By way of apology, I'll share a little statistic you might find interesting: the percentage of traffic from search engines at stackoverflow.com . Sept 16th one day after... Posted Oct 13 2008, 12:59 AM by Coding Horror Feeds Filed under: launch, google, blogger, new york times, scares, cruel joke, jeremy zawodny, internet kind, professional analyst, competitive market, desktop pc, monopoly power, current position, search industry, search engines, human knowledge, rich skrenta, tripadvisor, stack overflow, search traffic

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  The Perils of FUI: Fake User Interface As a software developer, tell me if you've ever done this: Taken a screenshot of something on the desktop Opened it in a graphics program Gone off to work on something else Upon returning to your computer, attempted to click on the screenshot as if... Posted Aug 18 2008, 12:59 AM by Coding Horror Feeds Filed under: google, ui element, user interface, javascript code, desktop background, software developer, user interfaces, page checks, web search engine, lily, meray, wrong hands, http www google com, lilies, virus alert, graphics program, website address, first response, anguished cries, referer

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  Adobe ConnectNow Adobe is now competing with Google, Sun, HP, IBM and Microsoft to provide applications in the cloud. Acrobat has gone live and let's hope it isn't as slow and agonizing as that all too familiar PDF. Read More... Posted Jun 02 2008, 07:09 AM by Paul Mooney Feeds Filed under: microsoft, google, sun, adobe, hp, acrobat

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  Designing For Evil Have you ever used Craigslist ? It's an almost entirely free, mostly anonymous classified advertising service which evolved from an early internet phenomenon into a service so powerful it is often accused of single-handedly destroying the newspaper... Posted May 29 2008, 12:59 AM by Coding Horror Feeds Filed under: google, target, evildoers, captcha, advertising service, detector ip, classified advertising, craigslist, spam message, e mail addresses, internet phenomenon, jiffy, oriented approach, ocr system, minor nuisance, ed note, john nagle, adbomber, random text, desktop software products

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  On Blogging, Technical, Personal and Intimate Sometimes people ask me why I don't put more "personal" details in my blogs--those who know me know that I'm generally pretty outspoken on a number of topics ranging far beyond that of simple technology. While sometimes those opinions... Posted May 25 2008, 02:40 AM by Interoperability Happens Feeds Filed under: google, inadequacy, blogging, new york times, anonymity, keystrokes, simple technology, public eye, public spotlight, sex religion, real person, technical details, public exposure, psychology master, taboo topics, burnout, quotations, emily, generations, sociology

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  Salesforce and Google Introducing Salesforce for Google Apps Salesforce has expanded their partnership with Google to deliver a new product called Salesforce for Google Apps . Salesforce for Google Apps is a simple combination of Web-based business applications that streamline... Posted Apr 14 2008, 10:23 AM by Paul Mooney Feeds Filed under: microsoft, google, ceo, business applications, web based business, alliances, collaboration, partnership, polly, salesforce, microsoft spokesperson, marc benioff

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  Google App Engine Introducing Google App Engine Google is offering developers a tool that enables us to run our web applications on Google's infrastructure. The goal is to make it easy to get started with a new web app, and then make it easy to scale when that app... Posted Apr 08 2008, 04:24 AM by Paul Mooney Feeds Filed under: developers, google, infrastructure, web applications, traffic

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  Google commences another assault on the traditional database community Many in the blogosphere noticed when Stonebraker and Dewitt at The Database Column took offense at the idea that map-reduce is the solution to many of life's problems . The idea that a simple idea, promoted by a services company, can blow away 20... Posted Apr 08 2008, 02:32 AM by Nothing To See Here Feeds Filed under: google, relational database, object database, ruby on rails, mapper, optimizer, transaction processing, database research, database column, familiarity, simplest thing, gql, python object, stonebraker, tight integration, sql syntax, entity relationship, dewitt, best solution, variable attributes

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  More on Paradise A couple of people have commented on the previous entry , citing, essentially, that Google needs to do this to be "the best". I understand the argument completely: Google wants to attract the top talent, or retain the top talent, or at least... Posted Apr 06 2008, 12:49 AM by Interoperability Happens Feeds Filed under: developers, microsoft, google, upper management, money, heyday, wall street, extravagance, sonny, marathon, goole, wall street journal, home away from home, windows nt team, zurich, tradeoff, bush, weekender, justification, necessary expense

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  Developer paradise? Check out this video . No, go on, watch it. The rest of this won't make much sense until you do. Now that you've seen it, take a moment, do the "WOW" thing in your head, imagine how cool it would be to work there, all of it. Go on, I... Posted Apr 03 2008, 03:02 AM by Interoperability Happens Feeds Filed under: google, blog entry, excitement, spectrum, legacy, distractions, video game room, fish tank, wow thing, cube farm, anecdotal evidence, continuum, quiet zones, massage chair, stimulus, audio noise, thinking time, dilbert

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  Let That Be a Lesson To You, Son: Never Upgrade. I occasionally follow Jamie Zawinski's blog . Jamie's an interesting guy. In the process of researching an earlier post , I discovered that he played a significant role in unearthing the classic Worse is Better paper: About a year later [1991... Posted Apr 01 2008, 12:59 AM by Coding Horror Feeds Filed under: dna lounge, jamie zawinski, google, software engineer, open source software, scott fahlman, news group, richard stallman, stock options, bell labs, own news, great software, peter norvig, flavors of linux, world class software, director of research, high school degree, cmu, league for programming freedom, thusly

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  The reason for conferences People have sometimes asked me if it's really worth it to go to a conference these days, given that so much material is appearing online via blogs, webcasts, online publications and Google. I think the answer is an unqualified "yes" (what... Posted Mar 15 2008, 08:58 AM by Interoperability Happens Feeds Filed under: long time, google, conferences, email, billy hollis, first thought, anecdote, air traffic control, exact same thing, webcasts, project managers, staring out the window, visibility, commercial aircraft, velocity, technical speakers, airplanes, consciousness, time networking, technical sessions

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  Respect at SXSW Great opening session at SXSW Interactive on Web Design as an art and profession seeking Respect! We create the web. Yet twelve years and two bubbles into its history, we get no respect as a profession. And nobody understands what we do, unless we're... Posted Mar 08 2008, 05:04 AM by Paul Mooney Feeds Filed under: google, yahoo, profession, architects, designers, jeffrey zeldman, twelve years, bubbles, relationship, work with clients, web design, journalists, admission, cog, dictatorship