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Instrumental | Onsite (remote during SARS-CoV-2) | Palo Alto, CA, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; New York City, NY, USA; San Diego, CA, USA; Longhua, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China Can you ima…

Instrumental | ONSITE | Palo Alto, CA, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; Charlotte, NC, USA; Longhua, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China Can you imagine writing software with no debugger or logging, …

This article links to [1] as an explanation for the delay, but that article says at the top that Github has since updated their configuration instructions to help people avoid the …

I've been working on a WebGL terrain engine recently -- you can try it out and switch on the "Turbulent" flag to see the results :) https://icecreamyou.github.io/THREE.Terrain/

I got frustrated with this and created BigConsole[1] to solve it. It's a Chrome extension that adds a Firebug-style split console to DevTools. Then I tweeted about it, and Addy Osm…

Marc Andreessen nailed this point years ago: https://pmarca-archive.posterous.com/the-pmarca-guide-to-sta...

There are an infinite number of ways to fail and only a few ways to succeed. If you learn from failure, you have learned one way that doesn't work out of an infinite number. If you…

If it's successful, it absolutely will.

Performance and goals don't have to mean the same thing. An example of a goal is "acquire 30 new customers by the end of the month" and the relevant performance metric there would …

Sorry -- some people struggle with light-on-dark text. I tend to like it (obviously) but I'll probably switch at some point for this reason. I also want to experiment with just mak…

Thank you for pointing this out! I was specifically trying not to say there is One True Way of setting goals but rather that science suggests certain kinds of goals work better for…

I agree with the idea that if you know nothing about a topic, it makes sense not to set goals in that space before you know whether those goals will be achievable or not. But Dan's…

Great question, and there's a lot to say about it. As with most things, there is no right answer, but here's a starting point: If you are sitting here thinking "I need some goals. …

There are a lot of different situations. Some common ones: 1) When people come to me and say "I need someone to build X for me," I usually say "I can help you make sure X gets done…

I can confirm this. I wrote quite a bit of open-source software that has attracted thousands of users over the years and now my clients find me instead of the other way around. You…