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heads down coding and building product. At fifteen to twenty people, you need to start the process of delegating your engineering responsibilities. The only way you’re going to achieve this is to absolutely trust your engineering team. Hire the best chief technology officer you can find and the best engineers you can find. At first, review all thei

In the majority of cases the parent process for a given process is the process that invoked it. For example, you're an OSX user who starts up Terminal.app and lands in a bash prompt. Since everything is a process that action started a new Terminal.app process, which in turn started a bash process. The parent of that new bash process will be the Ter

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he helped start a research group called MIDAS, which stood for Mining Data at Stanford.

Lotus was in a race with several more established competitors, and he knew it. Most industry people thought Lotus was crazy to try to unseat Visicalc, which dominated the market at that time. But Mitchell intuitively understood something that only the Japanese taught in school: in a fast-growing market, what matters is your share of new machines, n

West came to Data General in 1974, joining Carl Alsing and the other engineers who were attempting to bring the first Eclipse to life. To Alsing, West appeared to be just a good, competent circuit designer, but strikingly adept at finding and fixing the flaws in a computer. “A great debugger,” Alsing considered him. “He was so fast in the lab I fel