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John Carmack Biography

The Crazy Programmer

He is the co-founder of id Software, and the main programmer of popular games Wolfenstein, Commander Keen, 3D, Quake and Doom. His company developed various shareware and Internet Distribution Channels that brought a revolution in the field of computer games and how they were sold. Quake offered multiplayer gaming on the internet.

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Technology Trends for 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

While we like to talk about how fast technology moves, internet time, and all that, in reality the last major new idea in software architecture was microservices, which dates to roughly 2015. Use of content about AR and VR dropped 25% because people have missed the real story: we don’t need 3D goggles; we need tools for collaboration.

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The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy

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The internet is awash in billionaires who made their fortunes by following a strategy summed up in Mark Zuckerberg’s advice to “move fast and break things.” They took venture capital, blitzscaled their company, and beat AOL to the top of the internet heap —before being dethroned in their turn by Google. The case for blitzscaling.

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Lean Software Development: The Backstory

LeanEssays

The results were combined into a 3D model of the crown to which the dentist made a few adjustments. Then the internet began to invade the world, and it eventually became the delivery mechanism for a large fraction of the software being developed today. In 2001 the Agile Manifesto (Beck et al.,

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Technology Trends for 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

We know that C++ dominates game programming, but we suspect that it’s also coming to dominate embedded systems, which is really just a more formal way to say “internet of things.” (Usage of content about C is essentially flat, down 3%.) We also suspect (but don’t know) that C++ is becoming more widely used to develop microservices.

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