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When I leave here in 2-3 years, will it be because of the people, or because I haven't gotten a raise and/or promotion?

And product folks wonder why programmers hate them...

1. Have kids. 2. Have them at school by 7:30am every morning for a decade. 3. Wake up at 5am on a Sunday and congratulate yourself for being a "morning person" by questioning your …

That's because the word is generally considered juvenile - something a child of 2-12 would probably find hilarious. And despite how you might tell them to pronounce it, I'm pretty …

Take that manager salary and switch to 'Developer' and the salary drops by a few grand, at most. Maybe in some companies - but I'm the lead of a project, responsible for multiple d…

I'm surprised no one seems to have mentioned this earlier. Everyone's arguing about what image the icon contains and thinking of imaginary folks who are using computers for the fir…

Awesome site, thanks for posting! I'm in the the same boat as the OP and just happened to see this thread pop up while investigating, so this at least serves as a good source for c…

I tried sshfs but it's a bear when searching a large remote repository (dev environment is on a t2.micro EC2 instance with a repository of a couple hundred megs, including assets).…

The scene with 'Ghost City'... still sends shivers up my spine. Seeing it on the big screen for the first time in '95, I was blown away. While it does give us some visual informati…

cf, Jeffrey Arnett "Emerging Adulthood" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerging_adulthood_and_early_a...

I've seen this kind of thing in action. One particular case that sticks out in my memory involved function calls that didn't actually exist but were caught by magic methods and cre…

> but isn't this just part of being an adult? If you believe that, I've got a bridge I'd like to sell you... Eh? Eh? See what I did there?

http://www.computerworld.co.nz/article/457007/agile_great_do... http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/2012001...

I think you're taking Agile as defined in the manifesto out of context a bit too much and making it sound more like a religion (which, if you did, you would probably not be alone i…

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." - Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride

You make some good points about only actually interviewing competent developers and not wasting anyone's time. But in my experience, the take home assignments or coding challenges …

I'm in the South Bronx and looking to move northward, so anything that's in Brooklyn is a no-go for me - it'd be quicker for me to get to some places in New Jersey. So I definitely…

In NYC, 50% of all households are rental units, making up about a quarter of the rental units in the entire state. And on top of that, about a quarter of households in the state ar…

mysql_* functions have been deprecated since 5.5, so no big surprise here... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12859942/why-shouldnt-i-u...

If you're drinking whole milk, you're getting a mix of fat and sugar. If you're drinking skim milk, you've removed the fat and kept the sugar. Skim milk's popularity is a result of…