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I can tell you that typically users aren’t considered at all when it comes to software redesigns.
Why does Facebook keep redesigning?
Vineet Gupta: NoSql Databases – Part 1 - Landscape
A really extensive overview. I especially liked the details about Dynamo and Big Table
Once your code is functional and well tested, you still have an obligation to make it beautiful.
Correct, Beautiful, Fast (In That Order)
Metagames and Containers
Read this!
What Second Life can teach your datacenter about scaling Web apps
Very reasonable advice
Not a waste of time: Ste Curran's keynote for the 2010 Global Game Jam
More a video than a keynote, but very very awesome.
For years we’ve all held to the belief that computing had to be made simpler for the ‘average person’. I find it difficult to come to any conclusion other than that we have totally failed in this effort.
Future Shock