jmatthews

Thinking through a high competence developer's situation where you still get legitimate high value offers vs. someone that "doesn't belong here". Doesn't Mark's strategy insure high performers at least consider leaving…

This is a shot in the dark but I'm trying to find an article once posted here. My recollection and google-fu is coming up short. The context is a researcher is working hard but there is a different researcher in the…

There is an essay that featrues a scientist telling a story of when he was working at Bell Labs or one of the tech epicenters and he was jealous of another scientist, his supervisors says something to the effect of…

General AI learns to code and self improves to super intelligence. Problems beyond our abilities are trivial to it. Depending on which camp you fall into we either enter a stage of Nirvana or get replaced by a superior…

I recently did business with a guy that uses email in essentially the same way most people use text. We were working out the terms of a contract and it had the feel and immediacy of a typical text exchange. I started…

A good friend of mine has a child that was born with ONH. As a result he is blind. The family traveled to China a couple of years ago for stem cell treatment and the result were measurable, but didn't really change his…

This may or may not be the proper place for this question but it seems the best place to ask. Because of the limitations of GAE(specifically no writing of new files unless you are deploying) how can one structure their…