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Links for 2009-07-08

Stranger than Fiction: The Story of PokerTracker, Online Poker, and PostgreSQL - Coding the Wheel - I wonder if the PostgreSQL development team had any idea. After all, when you go about the incredibly difficult task of building (that is, coding) a relational database, you don't think: man, this thing will one day achieve mass popularity as the storage repository of choice for tens of thousands of real-money online poker players.
5 top non-technical mistakes made by programmers at Making good software - Lack of discipline. Big egos. Being a bad communicator. Forgetting about the customer. Not prioritizing the work properly.
How to Hire an A-Team - ReadWriteStart - Don't be afraid to hire people who are smarter than you. Hire athletes. Focus hard on building a win/win compensation plan. Take the time you need. Be demanding. Be honest and transparent. Listen. Establish techniques and tests specific to the position. Get a second opinion. Don't just "fill a position".
CSS Sprites are Stupid – Let's Use Archives Instead! (Firefox Demo) | kaioa.com - Interesting work around for Firefox. Avoid using sprites, use JAR files!
To all who Think Themselves a Programmer - Include your Reaction to the list below in E-mail Cover Letter 1. Hack the ______. 2. Answer to Life. 3. LEET
What’s Wrong with the Thread Object? « Bartosz Milewski’s Programming Cafe - I started writing a post about implementing actors in D when I realized that there was something wrong with the way thread spawning interacts with data sharing. Currently D’s Thread class closely mimics its Java counterpart, so I started wondering if this may be a more general problem–a problem with mixing object-oriented paradigm with multithreading.

This is a collection of links I have bookmarked on del.icio.us for the date 2009-07-08