This article is part of a 3-part series on trimodal compensation:

* Part 1: The trimodal nature of software engineering salaries in the Netherlands and Europe (2021, this article)
* Part 2: The trimodal nature of tech compensation revisited (2024, this…

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Mathematical models power our civilization—but they have limits.

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Bad managers and CRE bagholders lost, competent employees and internet-savvy teams won ...arbitrary authoritarian control over your work-life is so 1900s

It's well known that syscalls are expensive. And that software mitigations against CPU bugs (such as Meltdown) even have made them more expensive. But how expensive are they really? To begin to answer this question I wrote a small micro-benchmark in order…

After all these years…
When I walked in on him working this morning, I took this picture. I just love that he is still working from one of the first desks that have been around since the beginning (see next slide). This is where countless hours of ...