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So outside this individual case, how open or public should these types of decisions be made? For transparency, shouldn't people that are part of the community know when these actio…

That's what Uncle Bob is insinuating, but is that what really happened? I can't even see the tweet he's talking about. He mentions an @KubeCon twitter account. That account is not …

Why would you let yourself get so stuck in the minutia of SCRUM? Use the parts you need and not the parts that work against you. The value usually listed first in the agile manifes…

Simple networking knowledge is a go-to interview question for me. If you don't understand the basics of what happens from the time you enter a request in the browser to when the pa…

That's exactly my use case. I'm targeting 1800 calories of intake per day. I do 1 for breakfast and 1 for lunch. My wife and I then have a balanced dinner. This gives me structure …

Static sites for large institutions is asking for trouble down the road. Think about universities with hundreds of content providers. They'll put anything and everything on their s…

I was brought in to a company to build their own internal development team. They have a few projects in active development with a couple of contracting firms. The plan was to slowl…

Wouldn't applying some of your extra productivity to an open-source project be more beneficial to more people? Instead of having a difficult work environment with your co-workers y…

The preview pictures look very nice. From a resources perspective where did you get the recipes? I've considered making apps that require reference material like a recipe. The prob…

SEEKING WORK iPhone/iPad, PHP, MySQL Recently started looking for freelance opportunities. My day job is as a web developer for a state university. I have 2 apps in the iTunes App …

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I like to program whenever I'm not tired. I usually listen to music with headphones on. This helps to block out other people in the office or the tv/other people at home. Programmi…

Incredibly slow download right now. The Lion onslaught must be in full effect. I pulled Lion in about 15 minutes this morning. Xcode is estimated at about an hour and a half.

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A file is a file whether you call it data glob, group of bits, or Beelzebubba.

Why did you low ball yourself from the start? If 76 is the average in your area, you should have asked for 79. State that the average is 76 (site your source) and ask for 70 again.…

I was considering attending the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo this fall in NYC. Are these types of conferences worth the amount of money charged? How about the "Lite" sessions?

So many little thing in life cause so much unnecessary stress. Oxford comma, one or two spaces after a period, and three or four space indentation in code.

Getting companies to develop software for your OS would be very hard. Your OS would have to have hooks into the outside software to know what the program wanted to do with a file h…