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Halfway Around the World
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Halfway Around the World

Learn the language, meet the people, eat the food.

Stone Knives and Bear Skins
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Stone Knives and Bear Skins

There is no money in tools.

The Parchment Path?
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The Parchment Path?

Is there ever a time when learning is not of value—for its own sake?

All Sliders to the Right
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All Sliders to the Right

Hardware overkill.

The Elephant in the Room
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The Elephant in the Room

It is time to get the POSIX elephant off our necks.

When Should a Black Box Be Transparent?
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When Should a Black Box Be Transparent?

When is a replacement not a replacement?

Getting Off the Mad Path
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Getting Off the Mad Path

Debuggers and assertions.

Patent Absurdity
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Patent Absurdity

A case when ignorance is the best policy.

Divide and Conquer
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Divide and Conquer

The use and limits of bisection.

In Praise of the Disassembler
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In Praise of the Disassembler

There is much to be learned from the lower-level details of hardware.

Aversion to Versions
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Aversion to Versions

Code needs to run anywhere as long as the necessary dependencies can be resolved.

The Non-Psychopath's Guide to Managing an Open Source Project
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The Non-Psychopath's Guide to Managing an Open Source Project

Respect your staff, learn from others, and know when to let go.

Kabin Fever
From Communications of the ACM

Kabin Fever

KV's guidelines for KFH (koding from home).

Removing Kode
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Removing Kode

Dead functions and dead features.

Sanity vs. Invisible Markings
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Sanity vs. Invisible Markings

Tabs vs. spaces

Broken Hearts and Coffee Mugs
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Broken Hearts and Coffee Mugs

The ordeal of security reviews.

Kode Vicious Plays in Traffic
From Communications of the ACM

Kode Vicious Plays in Traffic

With increasing complexity comes increasing risk.

Master of Tickets
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Master of Tickets

Valuing the quality, not the quantity, of work.

Numbers Are for Computers, Strings Are for Humans
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Numbers Are for Computers, Strings Are for Humans

How and where software should translate data into a human-readable form.

Koding Academies
From Communications of the ACM

Koding Academies

A low-risk path to becoming a front-end plumber.
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