hardware
In 1998 I briefly worked for FiringSquad, a gaming website founded by Doom and Quake champion Thresh aka Dennis Fong and his brother Lyle. I can trace my long-standing interest in chairs and keyboards to some of the early, groundbreaking articles they wrote. Dennis and Lyle were great guys to
hardware
I was thrilled to discover that Santa Claus left a little unexpected present on
my doorstep on Christmas Eve: the two Lenovo ThinkServers that I ordered for
stackoverflow.com [http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/server/]! They weren't
supposed to arrive until sometime next week.
I immediately began unboxing
hardware
Given the rapid advance of Moore's Law
[https://blog.codinghorror.com/moores-law-in-practical-terms/], when does it make sense to throw
hardware at a programming problem? As a general rule, I'd say almost always.
Consider the average programmer salary
[http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Sr._Software_