Stories by sedev

Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)

Voting Simulation Visualization: Plurality, Approval, Borda, Condorcet, Hare/IRV

Judge the AI that exists, not the AI you imagine

A Drug-Free Nasal Spray to Prevent Emerging Respiratory Infections

Practical Wisdom: The Master Virtue

How to Compete with Patreon

What Software Is Made of (2015)

Software Development Worst Practices

Review of an N=1 Potassium Weight Loss Experiment

How Professional Ethics Work

Why it's hard to use a decade-old SQLite feature in 2016 Python code

“I am no longer allowed to be a Google user”

Sorry About Your Startup

Institutional Amnesia, Reverse Corporate Espionage, and Engineering Archaeology

So You Think You Want to Open a Brewery

Yelp now identifies spammy/fraudulent reviews as simply "not recommended"

How To Fail At Freemium

The Controller Pattern Is Awful, Or, Stop Writing Stupid Classes

The Unfinanced Entrepreneur [1998]

Lessons Learned From NUL-byte bugs