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2014
Dec 7, 2014
Engineering
Brinktop Seeks Technical Co-Founder
Nov 20, 2014
Engineering
I Love Bug Reports
Nov 17, 2014
Engineering
Startup HPC Conference
Nov 12, 2014
Engineering
A Big Day for ArrayFire with Open Source Release
Nov 8, 2014
Engineering
The Importance of Customers Loving a Product
Oct 28, 2014
Engineering
Startups Where Scientific Research Is The Bottleneck
Oct 23, 2014
Engineering
Proficiency at English is Vital Even for Developers
Oct 13, 2014
Engineering
Brinktop Needs Case Ideas
Oct 4, 2014
Engineering
Articles on Engineering
Sep 21, 2014
Education
State of the Art of Computer Vision
Sep 20, 2014
Engineering
Tech Entrepreneurs Should Learn Programming Languages
Sep 17, 2014
Engineering
Mobile CPUs Speedups Are Getting Harder to Come By
Sep 15, 2014
Engineering
Commercialization Options for Addons to a Core Open Source Project
Sep 13, 2014
Engineering
Avoiding Lock-In Through Open Source
Sep 9, 2014
Engineering
If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It
Sep 8, 2014
Engineering
Design vs User Experience
Aug 27, 2014
Education
On Drones
Aug 26, 2014
Education
10,000 Hours? Binge Modes? Yes or No?
Aug 1, 2014
Engineering
Transition Plan to Move ArrayFire to Open Source
Jul 31, 2014
Engineering
The Decision To Open Source ArrayFire
Jul 28, 2014
Engineering
An Engineering Hiring Dilemma We Face
Jul 26, 2014
Engineering
Looking for a Battery Engineer
Jul 17, 2014
Engineering
Tools of the Software Startup Trade
Jun 4, 2014
Engineering
Coding Is Emotional
May 22, 2014
Engineering
Finding & Poaching Our First Employee
May 11, 2014
Engineering
Productivity Tools
Apr 18, 2014
Engineering
Thoughts on Having Your Software Pirated
Apr 7, 2014
Engineering
Computer Vision
Apr 6, 2014
Engineering
Machine Learning
Mar 30, 2014
Culture
10 Things That Are Not Really Impressive
Mar 27, 2014
Engineering
The ArrayFire Users Group
Mar 25, 2014
Engineering
Thoughts on Open Source Projects
Mar 23, 2014
Engineering
Sales Guys Can Build Websites
Mar 2, 2014
Engineering
Thoughts on Pivoting and MVPs
Feb 23, 2014
Engineering
Secrets of Marketing in Technical Computing
Feb 6, 2014
Engineering
Is Your Product 10X Better?
Jan 25, 2014
Engineering
The Hidden Challenges of Outsourcing Software Development
Jan 19, 2014
Engineering
Working with Software Suppliers
Jan 17, 2014
Engineering
Super Successful Companies in Technical Computing Tools
Jan 16, 2014
Engineering
Monetizing Open Source Products
Jan 5, 2014
Engineering
Hardcore Software Engineering Anecdotes
2013
Dec 21, 2013
Engineering
Debugging Software
Dec 20, 2013
Engineering
Cognition-as-a-Service
Dec 13, 2013
Engineering
Doings Things Right vs Doing Things Fast in Software Development
Dec 8, 2013
Education
Living in the Future with Mini Computers
Dec 7, 2013
Engineering
The Internet of Things
Dec 3, 2013
Engineering
More Thoughts on Vetting Potential New Hires
Dec 2, 2013
Education
As Speed Gains Taper, CPUs Look To Do More
Dec 1, 2013
Engineering
Challenges for Amazon Prime Air
Nov 23, 2013
Education
An Exemplary Evening of Takeaways from Atlanta Bloggers
Nov 18, 2013
Engineering
Two Kinds of Exhibits to Watch at Tradeshows
Nov 17, 2013
Engineering
Ask This: How Is Your Software Tested?
Nov 12, 2013
Engineering
Tesla Motors Factory Tour
Nov 10, 2013
Engineering
Dealing with Platform Risk
Oct 23, 2013
Education
Building Technology Barriers to Entry are Tricky
Oct 20, 2013
Engineering
3D Printing
Oct 16, 2013
Engineering
Finding Talent as a Small Employer
Oct 14, 2013
Engineering
“I’m Not Technical” is Uncool
Oct 13, 2013
Engineering
Two Gems from Scoutmob’s @Tavani
Sep 28, 2013
Engineering
Tight Dev Loops
Sep 25, 2013
Engineering
My Failed Move to Linux
Sep 21, 2013
Culture
Spirit of a Pirate, Execution of a Navy SEAL
Sep 11, 2013
Engineering
Non-Engineers Managing Engineers
Sep 10, 2013
Engineering
Customer Support for Software Startups
Sep 9, 2013
Engineering
Quality Assurance in Software Development
Aug 29, 2013
Engineering
Messy Code Bases Are Like Messy Kitchens
Aug 18, 2013
Education
The Steve Jobs Movie
Aug 5, 2013
Education
Pivoting from Rural NC to Tech Startup
Aug 2, 2013
Engineering
Fun Friday: Video Game Innovation with Microsoft’s IllumiRoom
Aug 1, 2013
Engineering
How Video Games Influence Computing
Jul 18, 2013
Culture
Focus and Execution
Jun 27, 2013
Engineering
How Far Will Browsers Go
Jun 24, 2013
Engineering
Training New Employees
Jun 18, 2013
Engineering
German Strawberries and Product Bloat
May 30, 2013
Culture
Celebrating Startups at the Technical Edge
May 19, 2013
Culture
Company Dashboards
May 4, 2013
Engineering
Signs of Bad Engineering Practices
Apr 18, 2013
Culture
Engineering Productivity
Apr 15, 2013
Engineering
User Experience
Apr 9, 2013
Education
Parallel Software Development Trends for Dummies [Reblog]
Apr 4, 2013
Culture
Unpaid Internships
Mar 17, 2013
Education
Heterogeneous Computing Trends for Dummies [Reblog]
Mar 7, 2013
Education
CPU Processing Trends for Dummies [Reblog]
Feb 26, 2013
Engineering
Google First, Then Ask
Feb 18, 2013
Education
Programming Languages to Study
Feb 16, 2013
Engineering
License Management for Installed Software
Feb 2, 2013
Engineering
How We Built our Website
Jan 29, 2013
Engineering
Nightly Releases for Installed Software
Jan 28, 2013
Engineering
Software Release Cadence for Startups
Jan 22, 2013
Culture
Startup Culture – Be Self-Starting
Jan 8, 2013
Engineering
Bootstrapped Startup Approach to Buying Computers