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Ideas Worth Stealing

It’s widely believed that there’s such a thing as a “trade secret” in software development: some algorithm or data structure that makes your product better than all the others in your industry, and that you shouldn’t reveal it to your competition or else they’ll steal it and out-compete you.  Our industry is rife with NDAs, [...]

The Importance of the Side Project

For professional software developers and full-time computer science students, nearly all of your time 9-5 is spent working on programming or something similar, for someone else, to get paid money, to pay the rent/mortgage and send the kids to college some day.  I think a lot of software developers got into the industry because they [...]

Why Be First?

So the blogosphere, if there is such a place, is abuzz with the news about Google’s new web browser.   Many people have openly questioned if we really need another web browser, even one written from scratch by the geniuses at Google.  They have a whole comic book explaining the different between their browser and others, [...]