Cycle Gap

Joel Spolsky recently spoke at Y Combinator about selling software to corporate customers. He said that in most companies software costing u...

While going through a presentation (pdf) by John Anderson of the University of Edinburgh at LISA'08 , I came across a fascinating quot...

The free desktop has been in “catchup” mode: catching up to first Windows and now nipping at the heels of the Mac. Our path has been obviou...

Lean staffing also helps Arista keep its costs down. The Menlo Park, Calif., company has fewer than 50 employees and started shipping system...

Watching Steve Johnson's short six and half minute presentation titled 'Software:Business or Hobby ' (video) at the Business of ...

The biggest non-technical difference between git and mercurial is the rabid culture surrounding git. mercurial users fairly happily and quie...

In a Dilbert cartoon, the pointy-haired boss, apparently frustrated by the company's sub-par products, announces that he'll reward e...

About half an hour into the StackOverflow podcast , I started wondering whether I should stop listening to all the navel gazing about the so...

I don't think it's as hard to keep a site from sliding as one might think from the examples of previous sites where things went down...

"Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. We do it ourselves and we spend a lot of time at it. I've p...

In response to Paul Graham's essay A Fund Raising Survival Guide , Gordon Mohr has posted a fascinating insight in the comments: The ve...

The old, perl codebase was a pain -- I should know, I wrote it. ... of course, this was just integration with an off the shelf search soluti...

IBM, whose decision to back Linux years ago was a driving force in its adoption by business, called on developers of the open-source operati...

My only argument against perl would be it looks like a chicken ran across your keyboard. - Michael...

Linux kernel hacker Greg Kroah Hartman's June 5, 2008 talk at Google titled "The Linux Kernel" was chock-full of details abou...

Recently at work I couldn't help chuckling and shaking my head as I went through a list of requirements for a well known MNC - buried in...

Shyam points out the hypocrisy of a TCS executive advocating net access at work while denying the same to his own employees. A couple of ...

I don't understand why we need a program to spend millions of dollars to make laptops cheaper, when laptops get cheaper everywhere. I me...

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use virtualization." Now they have two problems. (Jamie Zawin...

Joel Spolsky's lecture at Yale university makes some interesting points about the dangers of automated testing. Joel is good at latch...