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Sunday, September 17, 2006 9:37 PM

What should I do now I can compete?

My departure from Microsoft is very nearly reaching its first anniversary. As befits someone approaching that milestone, my thoughts drift to ... the non-compete clause. That's the niggling part of the contract every Microsoft employee signs, and which...
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Monday, June 26, 2006 8:52 PM

I wish Larry hadn't written that...

Oh, Larry, Larry, Larry... Articles 1 and 2 were great - really necessary reading to a lot of would-be network programmers. But article 3... where to start with the corrections? I'm not going to. It's an article you shouldn't read, because you're not...
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Monday, May 08, 2006 5:01 PM

DELAY or NODELAY - Riffing on Larry, who's riffing on Raymond...

[Why is this under "Programmer Hubris"? Because it's about developers who find "an easy fix" and apply it, without trying to figure out why it made things appear to work better.] I like to read Larry Osterman and Raymond Chen's blogs, because they've...
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