Articles by compiler-guy
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Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring (techcrunch.com)

3

Parachute use to prevent death: a review of Randomized Controlled Trials (nih.gov)

1

The Cost of Free Doughnuts (npr.org)

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That post never existed. Stop listening to that thing (rachelbythebay.com)

2

Why Reproducible Builds? (reproducible-builds.org)

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Multi-Architecture Continuous Testing at Google (hackthology.com)

2

Clawdbot Showed Me What the Future of Personal AI Assistants Looks Like (macstories.net)

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Users don't always conform to the perfect visions of engineers (2011) (rachelbythebay.com)

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I am no longer chairing defenses where students use generative AI (columbia.edu)

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In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome (joelonsoftware.com)

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Haskell Researchers Discover Programmer Who Gives a Shit (2010) (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)

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A Complete Guide to Lock Convoys (davekilian.com)

4

The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code (2000) (joelonsoftware.com)

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Optimizing your talking points (2018) (rachelbythebay.com)

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Google lays off its Python team (social.coop)

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Falsehoods programmers believe about names (kalzumeus.com)

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But Where Do People Work in This Office? (2015) (mattblodgett.com)

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Small stupid things that make up my dev environment (rachelbythebay.com)

1

Just So Story (wikipedia.org)

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The 300-Year history of using 'literally' figuratively (thecut.com)

1

Things you should never do. Part I (joelonsoftware.com)

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Saving Lives (2004) (folklore.org)

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What Every C Programmer Should Know About Undefined Behavior (llvm.org)

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MLGO: A Machine Learning Guided Compiler Optimizations Framework (2021) (arxiv.org)

6

The Value of in House Expertise (danluu.com)

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Bounds Safety: Avoiding Death by a Thousand Constructors (danakj.github.io)

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What Is the Hyrum’s Law? and Why Should Software Engineers Care? (medium.com/se-101-software-engineering)

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Apple’s Unionized Store Wants to Start Accepting Tips from Customers (bloomberg.com)

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What do executives do, anyway? (2019) (apenwarr.ca)

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Friendships at work can boost happiness (npr.org)

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Differences Between iOS and Android Mastodon Clients (daringfireball.net)

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Billions of Dollars Later, IRS Lumbers Under Beatles-Era Tech (2022) (bloombergtax.com)

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The Cost of Free Doughnuts: 70 Years of Regret

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Fire and Motion (2002)