Culturally transmitted skills and values

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Dan is one of the deepest questioners of conventional industry wisdom that I know about (R0ml being the other one). Here, he turns his eye towards culture in general, and debugging in particular.

Some reasons to measure

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A thoughtful blog post on the value of measuring vs. building.

Against essential and accidental complexity

made by impostor, submitted by davidbalbert
Dan deconstructs Fred Brooks's assertions about accidental and essential complexity from No Silver Bullet in a way that only Dan can.

Files are fraught with peril

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It turns out that reading and writing to files is complicated.

Computer latency: 1977-2017

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A review of the last 30 years of computer input latency. Computers are getting faster, but latency keeps growing.