Been doing a lot of interviews lately, and I haven’t been happy with my phone screening. So, I did some looking up. This post is long, but quite thorough. There’s also this from Coding Horror, which is mostly a rehash of Yegge’s post, but adds a little commentary. And this from Joel Spolsky.

I don’t know how accurate the science is that’s paraphrased from the book, but I agree pretty completely with the myths. Especially this line: … Introverts are people who are over-sensitive to Dopamine, so too much external stimulation overdoses and exhausts them I love parties, but they do exhaust me. I often find I’m in [...]

Couldn’t agree more. I have yet to find a case for using queues, and have actively rejected them twice.

There’s no way that this guy’s time frames are likely to come true – no drivers by 2020? I think it’ll take more than nine years just to convince people that it’s a good thing to let the car do the driving. But, I love his enthusiasm, and I can’t wait. This won’t happen quickly [...]

Thoughtful post about Google, but what really interests me is the idea that as something (be it company, country, etc.) gets bigger and more powerful, it can do things that, when seen from the inside, are “in our best interest”, but, when seen from the outside, are “evil”. And that this can happen without necessarily [...]

This is why I left Linux for OS X seven years ago and haven’t looked back. When I want to spend my day effing with the OS, I’ll move back to Linux. But, currently, I’m happy to get some real work done. (Via .)

I’m glad someone else wrote this. I haven’t been able to figure out the need for OpenID, but figured that it might be my issue since the people behind it are so passionate. I use a variation of the second item on his list of how people deal with registering at a site: I use [...]

Great post on steps to take (and their particular order) on solving a technical issue in a small company (though it’d work for a large company as well). I’m not sure I completely agree – always worth overlooking code to make sure it’s written as efficiently as possible – but it’s interesting and I especially [...]

The day cars can drive themselves will not come soon enough for me. But, maybe it’s sooner than I thought.

Won’t be needing all of these, and I don’t know about the plugins, but interesting to know about, and some of the general settings are definitely useful.