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What an utterly ridiculous question, one that could only come from the mind of an indoctrinated theist. Why do theists have children when there's at least a 50% chance they'll burn…

Sound like software development might be a good opportunity for your dad to put his analytical skills to good use in his retirement. I'd suggest finding an existing open source pro…

Good communication, both ways. As an engineer, you'll be faced with situations where you have to explain something highly technical to someone not so technical, and more likely mor…

Pandemic - my daughter and I love playing this, because it's collaborative, you all win, or you all lose.

I wouldn't stress it too much. It used to be that a lots of places on your work history was frowned upon, but in my experience as a hirer, it's not such a big deal these days. It s…

Yep, I'm the same. At my last company they tried many times to get me to take a big monitor "like everyone else", but I feel more effective on a single MacBook Pro with multiple de…

Spot on, came to say exactly the same thing. If you don't trust the people you hire, then don't hire them.

Productize: make it reliable, secure, polished, i.e. make it a product, not a prototype.

The only advice I can give is from my perspective as an employer at a large SaaS company recently. As CTO I was responsible for building a large team covering various skills, inclu…

Simple, because Facebook are a threat to the entire way of life for mainstream press, so they will jump all over this, spin it and twist it in all sorts of wonderful, self serving …

None, you'd be wasting your time and energy. Languages come and go, good software design principles stand the test of time. Spend your energy wisely, learning good core principles,…

Erm, that doesn't look like a blog to me, that looks like a simple transcription of Amazon adverts, there are no reviews, in fact the few posts I looked at were simple cut & paste …

The "widgets" are implemented using Gridstack ( https://troolee.github.io/gridstack.js/ ), the rest is all hand coded JS/CSS. The pattern editor, waveform editors and other intensi…

Smalltalk - the granddaddy of all object oriented languages, and still the 'most' object oriented IMHO. And the only language that I know of that is typically implemented in a syst…

Don't choose one language! Why constrain yourself? One thing I always try to instil into my teams, "learn to program, do not learn a language". If you focus on becoming a good engi…

Depends a lot on the needs of the client. Some have preferences on the development language, deployment setup, etc. I tend to mix and match the following... Groovy/Grails, Java/Spr…

Thanks for the responses so far, very useful. I'd just like to clarify a couple of details, in case it makes any difference to the responses. Firstly, the solution is based around …

I've got a plan for a different approach to software development on embedded platforms. One that doesn't required the typical edit/compile/flash/restart cycle. Instead it allows di…

Having been a long term supporter of RoR (and still am to a degree, it is very good for some things), I recently tried out Tornado. Very, very impressed, I personally have been muc…

I'm planning to build an interactive development system, very similar to Smalltalk. It seems that all implementations of Smalltalk, except Squeak and Pharo are dormant or abandoned…