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- Why I walked away from millions of dollars to found a startup
- Clojure's missing piece
- Recipe for a great programmer
- How becoming a pilot made me a better programmer
- The limited value of a computer science education
- Functional-navigational programming in Clojure(Script) with Specter
- History of Apache Storm and lessons learned
- The Entrepreneur Who Captivated Me
- Why we in tech must support Lawrence Lessig
- The inexplicable rise of open floor plans in tech companies
- Interview with "Programmer Magazine"
- Break into Silicon Valley with a blog
- Principles of Software Engineering, Part 1
- My new startup
- Leaving Twitter
- Storm's 1st birthday
- Suffering-oriented programming
- Early access edition of my book is available
- How to beat the CAP theorem
- My talks at POSSCON
- Inglourious Software Patents
- Cascalog workshop
- Analysis of the #LessAmbitiousMovies Twitter Meme
- How to reject a job candidate without being an asshole
- You Are a Product
- The time I hacked my high school
- Fastest Viable Product: Investing in Speed at a Startup
- How to get a job at a kick-ass startup (for programmers)
- Clojure or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Parentheses
- 5 Tips for Thinking Under Uncertainty
- You should blog even if you have no readers
- My experience as the first employee of a Y Combinator startup
- Your company has a knowledge debt problem
- Why your company should have a very permissive open source policy
- News Feed in 38 lines of code using Cascalog
- Cascalog Presentation at Bay Area Clojure User Group
- New Cascalog features: outer joins, combiners, sorting, and more
- Introducing Cascalog: a Clojure-based query language for Hadoop
- Fun with equality in Clojure
- Migrating data from a SQL database to Hadoop
- Proof that 1 = 0 using a common logical fallacy
- Thrift + Graphs = Strong, flexible schemas on Hadoop
- Follow-up to "The mathematics behind Hadoop-based systems"
- Introducing "Nanny" - a really simple dependency management tool
- Why so many research papers are so hard to understand
- Stateless, fault-tolerant scheduling using randomness
- My conversation with the great John McCarthy
- Mimi Silbert: the greatest hacker in the world
- Tips for Optimizing Cascading Flows
- The mathematics behind Hadoop-based systems