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That's a lot of assumptions piled up into quite an edifice... just like Lepore's article.

It always surprises me that, in a community full of Agile people, there is so much effort put into the hiring process that smells of BDUF.

So, let's exaggerate the bad of PM tools, ex. "Tasks hierarchy to the 5th level", and let's fly to the other extreme as some sort of saving grace. I've been in three startups. We t…

So, you recommended "try nothing and re-invent everything"? Incidentally, I don't think the author meant try everything, but rather don't be afraid to try it out, in the right cont…

It's also time you got familiar with carpentry, plumbing, auto repair, law, medicine, etc. Why stop just at code, right?

So, how does this analysis account for the fact that, in many reported cases like this, other services work just fine at high-speed? Your point 2 is that more consumers and produce…

What are your living expenses, though. It's not top-line salary that matters, if you have to piss it away on renting a one-bedroom apt...

The built-in romantic assumption is that 7,776 different language would result in things like 7,776 solutions to one problem, which is likely not the case.

Waitaminute. Anything that transforms ("manipulates") state is a function call. It's y = f(x), where f() is a GET, PUT, POST, etc, x is the resource and y is the response, no? REST…

There's never been due process; it's not suddenly worse than before. The widespread and rapid communications we enjoy know have made us all too aware of how often it does (and used…

Two words: confirmation bias.

Or worse: "Internet Tycoon"

This is yet another example of bad science journalism. The fact is: Different sleep patterns correlates to different gene expression patterns. From that, wild conjecture. How do we…

At least once a week I am gobsmacked by how excruciatingly and pointlessly picky developers can be. Want to start a real stupid waste of time fight? Bring up code standards. Not th…

My only problem is #4. Might need clarification. Lots of (if not all) startups will have a negative long-term effect on some incumbent party. Could you give an example of a startup…

Would this kind of recruitment tactic expose one to an EEOC lawsuit?

False dichotomy: why do we have to choose between fixing mass shooting or fixing tobacco deaths? Why not fix both? There is likely some amount of finite resources to be given, per …

Right. Because large companies are paragons of efficiency? I'm really getting tired of the "governments are corrupt/inefficient/lazy" meme. There is a contingent of people on the r…

http://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2012.html#October_2_2012

+1 I continuously bump into valid (if not about specific lines of code) programming questions closed by some CasperOne grognard.

So, you absorb all the infrared, which means less heat in the building. Great for warm climates, but for cold climates, you simply are making it so that you need to heat your build…

So, I guess Bootstrap editors will be like Tetris to the game development world? Everyone and their uncle has to create one of those, as if it's some rite of passage.

"but no one is forcing you to use it" Actually, that is what some people believe. This is a first step by Microsoft to eventually force everyone to the Windows Store. Whether havin…

"Microsoft is not getting rid of the Desktop...now." is the best we can say. It certainly looks like they are well-positioned, should they want to, to force all apps through the ap…

Part of the contributing evidence was that the Italian scientists individually weighed as much as a duck. It was pretty much a slam dunk for the prosecution after that.