Monthly Archives: January 2008

Yale Patt on Abstraction

Posted on January 31, 2008 by admin

Abstraction’s a good thing? Abstraction is a good thing if you don’t care about the performance of the underlying entities. You know, so many schools teach freshmen programming in Java. So what’s a data structure? Who cares? My hero is … Continue reading →

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The smart phone patent

Posted on January 26, 2008 by admin

Coming to Marshall Texas. 33 defendents, 128 claims .

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Google’s engineering culture

Posted on January 17, 2008 by admin

Article in the New Yorker on Google contains a fascinating description of a product design meeting: Page and Brin had wanted an upgrade of an existing product, and they were unhappy with what they were hearing from the engineers. At … Continue reading →

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