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Joel Spolsky

Software developer; co-founder of Stack Overflow and Fog Creek Software, and author of the Joel on Software blog.

3 books on the record · 25 Jan 2010 – 27 Mar 2012

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

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The Founder's Dilemmas by Noam Wasserman

Wasserman has finally put it all together in a great book called The Founder's Dilemmas, which I highly recommend if you're starting a company.

on joelonsoftware.com · 27 Mar 2012

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Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug

The sequel, Rocket Surgery Made Easy, is a terrific, short, concise, fun guide to running simple "hallway" usability tests to improve the usability of your software and websites. Highly recommended.

on joelonsoftware.com · 25 Jan 2010

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.