{{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/55/images/1055997426.jpg" title="Where do These People Get Their (Unoriginal) Ideas? - Joel on Software" link="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000068.html" domain="joelonsoftware.com" date="2011-08-09" tags="talks, tech" excerpt="Maybe I should call this article “why I should stop reading Upside Magazine”. I really have been trying to stop, but they send it to me for free, and I really needed bathroom reading ma…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/55/images/1055997440.gif" title="Designing for People Who Have Better Things To Do With Their Lives - Joel o" link="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000062.html" domain="joelonsoftware.com" date="2011-08-09" tags="talks, tech" excerpt="When you design user interfaces, it’s a good idea to keep two principles in mind: Users don’t have the manual, and if they did, they wouldn’t read it. In fact, users can’t r…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/55/images/1055997443.jpg" title="Daily Builds Are Your Friend - Joel on Software" link="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000023.html" domain="joelonsoftware.com" date="2011-08-09" tags="talks, tech" excerpt="In 1982, my family took delivery of the very first IBM-PC in Israel. We actually went down to the warehouse and waited while our PC was delivered from the port. Somehow, I convinced my dad to get t…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/55/images/1055997432.png" title="Making Wrong Code Look Wrong - Joel on Software" link="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html" domain="joelonsoftware.com" date="2011-08-09" tags="talks, tech" excerpt="Way back in September 1983, I started my first real job, working at Oranim, a big bread factory in Israel that made something like 100,000 loaves of bread every night in six giant ovens the size of…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/55/images/1055997431.jpg" title="Painless Bug Tracking - Joel on Software" link="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000029.html" domain="joelonsoftware.com" date="2011-08-09" tags="talks, tech" excerpt="TRS-80 Level-I BASIC could only store two string variables, A$ and B$. Similarly, I was born with only two bug-storing-slots in my brain. At any given time, I can only remember two bugs. If you ask…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/56/images/1055997434.jpg" title="The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code - Joel on Software" link="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html" domain="joelonsoftware.com" date="2011-08-03" tags="code, programming, tech" excerpt="Have you ever heard of SEMA? It’s a fairly esoteric system for measuring how good a software team is. No, wait! Don’t follow that link! It will take you about six years just to understa…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/56/images/1055997460.jpg" title="Recruiting the Top 1 Percent - Joel Spolsky - Fog Creek Software - Internsh" link="http://www.inc.com/magazine/20070501/column-guest.html" domain="inc.com" date="2011-08-03" tags="career, interviews, talks, tech" excerpt="There's a better way to find and hire the very best employees." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/56/images/1055997427.webp" title="Beating the Averages" link="http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html" domain="paulgraham.com" date="2011-08-03" tags="career, interviews, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/56/images/1055997449.webp" title="Security Report: Windows vs Linux • The Register" link="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/22/security_report_windows_vs_linux" domain="theregister.co.uk" date="2011-05-24" tags="security, tech" excerpt="An independent assessment" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/56/images/1055997433.webp" title="The Anatomy of a Search Engine" link="http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html" domain="infolab.stanford.edu" date="2011-04-12" tags="architecture, google, history, talks, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/56/images/1055997450.png" title="Create a Language Compiler for the .NET Framework Using C#" link="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc136756.aspx" domain="msdn.microsoft.com" date="2011-02-23" tags="code, programming, tech, dotnet" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Gamasutra - News - Analysis: The Psychology of Immersion in Video Games" link="https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/analysis-the-psychology-of-immersion-in-video-games" domain="gamedeveloper.com" date="2010-08-27" tags="games, gaming, psychology, tech" excerpt="Game discussion often revolves around "immersion," but what exactly does that mean? Psychologist and gamer Jamie Madigan takes a look at the complex psychological concepts behind immersion in games." >}}