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Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT09/22 Futurist prediction methods and accuracy04/22 In defense of simple architectures03/22 Why is it so hard to buy things that work well?02/22 Misidentifying talent02/22 A decade of major cache incidents at Twitter02/22 Cocktail party ideas12/21 The container throttling problem12/21 Some thoughts on writing12/21 Some latency measurement pitfalls11/21 Major errors on this blog (and their corrections)11/21 Individuals matter11/21 Culture matters10/21 Willingness to look stupid10/21 What to learn10/21 Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity09/21 The value of in-house expertise08/21 Measurement, benchmarking, and data analysis are underrated12/20 Against essential and accidental complexity06/20 How do cars do in out-of-sample crash testing?05/20 A simple way to get more value from tracing05/20 A simple way to get more value from metrics03/20 How (some) good corporate engineering blogs are written03/20 The growth of command line options, 1979-Present02/20 Suspicious discontinuities02/20 95%-ile isn't that good01/20 Algorithms interviews: theory vs. practice07/19 Files are fraught with peril02/19 Randomized trial on gender in Overwatch12/17 Computer latency: 1977-201711/17 How good are decisions? 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