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28 Oct 08
Coding Horror: The One Thing Every Software Engineer Should Know
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- people understand what you're doing
- people become interested in what you're doing
- people get excited about what you're doing
This is painful for developers to hear, because we love code. But all that brilliant code is totally irrelevant until:
- people understand what you're doing
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07 Oct 08
Feature: How to Track Down Anyone Online
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When you're trying to find someone online, Google's not the only game in town. In the last two years, a handful of new people search engines have come onto the scene that offer better ways to pinpoint people info by name, handle, location, or place of employment. While there's still no killer, one-stop people search, there are more ways than ever to track down a long-lost friend, stalk an ex, or screen a potential date or employee. The next time you wonder, "What ever happened to so-and-so?" you've got a few power people search tools to turn to.
11 Jan 08
Good Math, Bad Math : The Genius of Donald Knuth: Typesetting with Boxes and Glue
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But on the whole, it's been a great thing. Pick up any conference proceedings
from the last 20 years, in the fields of math, computer science, physics, or chemistry (among numerous others), and you'll see the results of TeX layout. Pick up a book published by Springer-Verlag, and it's almost certainly typeset by TeX. Look at Greg Chaitin's books - every one was written using TeX. Look at any typeset equation in pretty much any published source, from websites to conference proceedings, to journals, to textbooks. If the equation looks really good, if everything is in exactly the right place, and every symbol is correctly drawn in relation to everything else - odds are, it was generated by TeX. Even hardcore Microsoft word users generally use something TeX based for doing equations.
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