Nathan Brixius

A colleague asked me to jot down some thoughts on what makes a good developer at Microsoft. This is by no means complete, but three statements come to mind when I think about strong developers: We are engineers, not hackers. A strong dev should be able Read More...

...you start scheduling time on your calendar to 'think'. Read More...

You’re the best around, and nothing’s ever gonna keep you down. Read More...

I'm going to devote a few posts to my thesis topic, the quadratic assignment problem . Quadratic assignment problems are a type of matching problem that are NP hard and have some interesting applications. I'll start out by describing linear assignment Read More...