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A big part of the problem is the perception of what work is. When someone can see you at your desk hitting keys or standing in front of a white board drawing diagrams there is the …

I'm not a lawyer and the best advice is to check everything with a lawyer...that said it sounds like the contract would be covered by Cypriot and (if you're in the south) EU law. I…

I was recently approached by a large tech company about a position they were trying to fill. The first step in the interview process was to complete a timed LeetCode-style coding t…

First of all, you are not alone. When I read your post it really resonated with me. I've been developing software professionally for 25+ years and have had 3 bouts of burnout and h…

I feel your pain :) Complexity kills projects and the will to work on them. It can be caused by either over or under-engineering. With the first you end up with extraneous layers o…

The issue here isn't so much over or under-engineering, but rather "Are we building the right thing?" or "Are we building the thing right?" In a startup you don't know if you're bu…

That made me smile....thanks @jmnicolas :)

Thanks for writing this post. I'm visually impaired (but not blind) and can get by making minor adjustments to my work environment (font size, contrast, etc), but reading this was …

As an Angular user these changes concern me greatly. Not just the scope of the changes (which is huge) but the timeframe as well. What really worries me is that with version 2 stil…

Not meaning to sound snarky but it isn't this growth pattern reminiscent of a pyramid scheme ? Obviously I'm not suggesting SO is a pyramid scheme, but if that's how the reputation…

Sure, checkout Chapter 2 ( http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-13.html... ). It shows how you can define data structures such as lists or trees from a simple pair …

I'm reading SICP at the moment and have to say it's been a real eye opener. I'm finding that seeing concepts I take for granted when I'm programming being built up from first princ…

> I'll take a good writer over a puzzle-solver any day Absolutely agree, but I'd extended it to good communicator. Communication touches on so much of what we do as programmers, be…