Joe Petviashvili

“The application might show tool tips as the mouse hovers over the disabled menu item.”

An important part of me is missing...

Visual bookmark for everyone

No wonder users rely on the mouse so much. Most browsers do an embarassingly bad job of making the focus obvious, so users feel compelled to click on fields to orient themselves.

“the family-unfriendly image of a fish-woman spreading her tails is on its way out.”

Reliability at massive scale is one of the biggest challenges we face at Amazon.com, one of the largest e-commerce operations in the world; even the slightest outage has significant financial consequences and impacts customer trust. The Amazon.com platform, which provides more...

recently acquired what might be the worst toaster in the history of the world. It's pretty fancy and shiny and microprocessor controlled. And it makes toast. But

Voronoi diagrams have been used by anthropologists to describe regions of influence of different cultures; by crystallographers to explain the structure of certain crystals and metals; by ecologists to study competition between plants; and by economists to model markets in more...

The damn thing doesn’t exist. And Mr Moulton, who apparently designed the thing as part of his Virginia Tech master’s thesis, didn’t even bother to check whether his design could possibly bloody work at all, even if you built it more...

Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for more...

perceived performance is more important than actual performance.

It's all about building the type of site and community you want. Control and monitor who participates and how with full administration privileges over site access, submissions, voting, comments, design and more.

a program that finds the shortest possible instruction sequence for a given function. The superoptimizer works by sheer dumb luck: it checks whether every possible instruction sequence up to a given length produces the desired answer.