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Re: source control, this was also written in the year 2000...

At the end of the article the author states that FMT has gained some widespread acceptance in the past 6 years. Her experience is from 2012, when it was still a relatively obscure …

Wow, this is a big deal! Great move by Twilio, bringing together the premier SaaS SMS provider and the premier SaaS transactional email provider under one roof. It's only too bad t…

Developer tools: Twilio, Heroku Consumer software: TurboTax I know that TurboTax is a controversial choice because they are incentivized to fight to keep tax law complicated, but i…

I think my head might explode if I ever see that in reality.

At least in the United States, I see exactly 0 chance of this happening in the current cultural and regulatory system we operate under. The average American worker is just lucky th…

I love the detail-oriented approach to this. Tracking jQuery usage and slowly removing components from their custom jQuery library are both really clever strategies.

If you're an early-stage startup that's still determining product-market fit, then it's completely fair to eschew tests and accumulate tech debt; you're at a higher risk of running…

I had a job offer from the StatusPage guys a few years ago that I turned down (shortly before their acquisition by Atlassian, d'oh!). The feature set is relatively simple, but the …

Late to this thread, but I loved this article because it put something into perspective for me... my New England boarding school had a swimming requirement, and was proud of its lo…

For the last 5 years I've worked primarily with startup CTOs and enterprise directors/VPs to build teams practices XP, lean product development, and user-centered design. My advice…

I just want to remind folks that there are, in fact, organizations for whom the open plan actually works. I've spent the last few years practicing XP, on a collaborative team that …

I'm very confused... "Errors discovered through Instabug are most likely to be resolved within 24 hours of being reported" is one of the TL;DR points, but only ~1.5% of bugs are re…

Very interesting read. I did a double take that a lack of Cesium-137 meant "post-1980" (not "pre-1980") since the levels have dropped off since the testing in the 50s and 60s.

The "Humanity" section has left me with a deep chill. I've already been in an existential mood the nature of life in the modern age, and now I've got the end of humanity to think a…

Short answer: no. Long answer: nooooooooo. End of story. Goodbye.

On one hand, this seems like a very heavy-handed move considering today's societal ubiquity of meat. On the other hand, I believe that in 100 years we'll look at today as the dark …

Doctor-patient privilege applies even after death, and while I couldn't easily find anything online, my assumption is that there's a process in place to handle scenarios like this …

It's not as clear cut as you're making it sound, there are a wide variety of opinions about how much a person's right to privacy extends beyond their death.

Your comment implied that the author doesn't address this in depth in the article. Your article flippantly compares this to people finding random correlations, which is so far from…

I read through most of the content, and the quality of reporting was top-notch. The browser wars article, the reporting on the state of online privacy, the discussion of IPOs... al…

Very interesting article, but I was disappointed that the article stated that the millenial only-children of China are "outspoken", "pampered", or "self-centered". I don't believe …

The update is far more delicious than the original: http://www.askamanager.org/2016/07/a-coworker-stole-my-spicy... I'm not sure that the original advice given was ideal. I'd recom…

I want Spotify to do well, but the reason I'm cautious is the lack of true differentiation. Spotify has a great platform, but I'd worry about the level of control that the labels a…

> Google’s core DNA is search and engineering, though some would say engineering that is driven by the economics of search, which makes it hard for the company to see the world thr…