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• Contracts you should never sign
• What we look for in a resume
• 1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires
• Things they didn't teach you about Software Engineering
• 8 Hard Truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job
• What my life would be without programming
• Abstraction is Expensive
• Cache invalidation really is one of the hardest problems in computer science
• The Distributed Computing Manifesto
• Stop lying to yourself – you will never “fix it later”
• In defense of linked lists
• Four Cornerstones of CPU Performance
• Faster hardware is a bad first solution to slow software
• When life gives you lemons, write better error messages
• Mike Acton’s Expectations of Professional Software Engineers
• Facts about State Machines
• Aging programmer
• How I’m a Productive Programmer With a Memory of a Fruit Fly
• Senior Engineers are Living in the Future
• What Distinguishes Great Software Engineers?