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The Importance of Excel

The role of Microsoft Excel in the “London Whale” trading debacle.

Source: The Baseline Scenario

How Etsy Grew their Number of Female Engineers by Almost 500% in One Year

Optimize for "let’s build together" rather than, “let me prove to you how smart I am.”

Source: firstround.com

Gelsinger and Meyer: Two CPU Designers Who Changed the World

From x86 to x64 and beyond...

Source: smartbear.com

Bill Gates' biggest Microsoft product regret: WinFS

...and other tidbits from Bill Gates' first-ever Ask Me Anything (AMA) on Reddit.

Source: ZDNet

XML’s 15th Birthday

<adjective>Happy</adjective><noun>Birthday</noun><punctuation>!</punctuation>

Source: ongoing by Tim Bray

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Developer News

The promise of Firefox OS

WebAPI will free you... except for all that pesky platform API stuff.

Source: Sergi Mansilla

Google Go: The Good, the Bad, and the Meh

Everybody's talking about Go this week. What do you think about it?

Source: Life in This World

Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice

You are not defined by your chosen software stack!

Source: Kalzumeus Software

Digging deeper into the Apollo Saturn V LVDC

Want to launch your own rocket? You'll need a Saturn booster and one of these: a Launch Vehicle Digital Computer.

Source: Hack a Day

Files as UI vs API

Are the days of hierarchichal file systems numbered?

Source: Informal Protocol

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Code Project Discussions - Your say!

A simple IDE for Android?

What's the simplest way to start programming for Android?

Source: CodeProject

Dual monitors, a week in

Research claims a 42~51% improvement in productivity. What do you think?

Source: CodeProject