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My Old Master: On Optimism

The “My Old Master” posts are non technical posts in reference to my karate (shaolin kempo) teacher, and the things he taught my friends and I over a decade to be martial artists (peaceful warriors),...

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A Tool To Debug Teams (Knoster)

In the professional world, programmers work in teams as a rule, with very few exceptions. For the programmers aiming to remain programmers, and not going into management, we are often focused on our...

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My Old Master: How to Correct as a Mentor or a Teacher

Preface: I studied martial arts for a little over a decade (shaolin kempo at USSD) and learned a lot while I was there. Our teacher was a great guy who genuinely cared about his students, and in...

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How and Why Cleaning Up Code or Processes Gives Multiplicative Benefits

The engineering manager of my team Paul Haban (@XpresoAdct) mentioned to me once in passing that when you fix a problem, you often get multiplicative returns beyond the initial problem you intended to...

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No Bad Code, Creeping Normality and Social Structure Code Organization

In the last post I said that another post was coming regarding using bilinear texture sampling for something interesting. Hopefully without sounding too pretentious, that interesting thing I wanted to...

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Situational Leadership

This is a little bit different than the normal kinds of topics I write about, but I found it pretty interesting so wanted to share with you guys. (Thanks for sharing the idea with me Paul!) This is a...

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