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	<title>Martin C. Martin</title>
	<link>http://www.martincmartin.com/blog</link>
	<description>Inspiring lunatics, tainting meats</description>
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		<title>Finding a Job You&#8217;ll Love: The Interview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s best if you can do some prep for the interview.  Try to understand what the company&#8217;s product is.  It&#8217;s amazing how cryptic a web site can be, especially if it&#8217;s enterprise software in some industry you don&#8217;t know.  Still, make an attempt, and ask about anything that&#8217;s confusing.  The fact [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martincmartin.com/blog/?p=149</link>
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		<title>Finding A Job You&#8217;ll Love: The Reverse Phone Screen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once you&#8217;ve sent out resumes, you&#8217;ll hopefully get a few people interested in phone screening you.  You&#8217;re really best off if you prepare for these and for the in-person interview.  Get a relevant textbook and start reading it in the evenings or on your lunch break.  People seem to love algorithms questions, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martincmartin.com/blog/?p=144</link>
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		<title>Finding A Job You&#8217;ll Love: Locating Opportunities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve changed jobs a bunch of times over the last few years, and now I&#8217;ve found one I&#8217;m going to stick with for quite a while.  So I thought I&#8217;d write up the tricks and tips I&#8217;ve learned for anyone in a similar situation.
The first thing to do is figure out what you want. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martincmartin.com/blog/?p=136</link>
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		<title>Finding A Job You&#8217;ll Love: Recruiters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah recruiters.  If you understand their motivations and find a good one, they can work wonders.  But the average and bad ones can be worse than searching yourself.
When looking for a job, you should definitely search on your own through websites like indeed.com and simplyhired.com.  But you should also work with a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martincmartin.com/blog/?p=119</link>
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		<title>Reading The Fine Manual</title>
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I&#8217;m always amazed how long people spend trying to figure out software by fumbling around with it, rather than reading the manual.  Now, I know what you&#8217;re thinking.  You&#8217;re thinking &#8220;Golly Martin, reading manuals is all swell and good, but I&#8217;ve got to write code and fix bugs.  If I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martincmartin.com/blog/?p=86</link>
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		<title>Introductory Books on Web Testing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone at work asked for introductory books on testing, that would help them test our web site.  I think these are the best, and thought I&#8217;d have some fun with Amazon&#8217;s web widgets.
  Amazon.com Widgets
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		<link>http://www.martincmartin.com/blog/?p=85</link>
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		<title>Concurrency ≠ Threads</title>
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Here&#8217;s a conversation I seem to be having over and over these days:
Someone else: Computers are getting more and more cores.  So, we need to thread our software to take advantage of them.
Me: But threads (the Dijkstra style shared-state-with-locks-and-mutexes-and-semaphores-oh-my variety) are almost impossible to get right, and when they&#8217;re used in other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martincmartin.com/blog/?p=84</link>
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		<title>Should you pursue your PhD?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A PhD is a big, multi-year project. You really learn self-reliance, how to budget your time, and how to motivate yourself,&#8221; says Martin Martin, a senior software engineer with a PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.
From Should you pursue your PhD?, an article that includes a couple different paragraphs from yours truly.
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		<link>http://www.martincmartin.com/blog/?p=82</link>
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		<title>Where are the fast dynamic languages?</title>
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But I also knew, and forgot, Hoare&#8217;s dictum that premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.
&#8211; Donald Knuth

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Something bizarre happened on the Groovy-dev mailing list the other day. Alex Tkachman made what I thought was a simple suggestion: since some rarely used features of the language make it slow, we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martincmartin.com/blog/?p=77</link>
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		<title>What I&#8217;ve Learned From Programming In Lisp</title>
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Two years ago I landed a job at ITA Software, which Paul Graham called one of the &#8220;ten or twenty places where hackers most want to work,&#8221; along with Google.  And one of the interesting things about ITA is that the majority of their software is written in Lisp.
Now before starting there, [...]]]></description>
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