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Best Practices vs. Practical Reality
I’m struck by the huge gap that I see between acknowledged best practices and what companies are actually practicing. More than once, I have researched a product direction and decided not to pursue it because it seemed to me that the market must already be saturated. Later, when talking to customers, I’m stunned to find…
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The Future of Linux
As a software developer, I get to see aspects of Windows, Linux, UNIX and Mac OS X of which end-users are oblivious. In previous posts, (for example, What Linux Needs to Learn from Windows) I have bemoaned the lack of standards between Linux distributions and the lack of system APIs. I’ve also praised Microsoft for…