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Even better: for years Barnes & Noble bought out the contract of every location that Borders tried to open in NYC, and opened a B&N there for the exact same reason -- and also to k…

Agreed. Totally awesome cellist. Fantastic use of looping to create 16-32 part cello pieces live, on stage, as a one woman show. And yes, she's hot, in a way that's at once kind of…

Which some tinpot dictator might just try to do.

I think the interviewee made a very solid case that there is a hiring gap in the area of experienced specialists. He seemed to think that was the major chunk of the "skill gap" emp…

Ironically, it was "rethinking digg" and "rebuilding it from scratch" that killed it in the first place.

I have seen this product in operation, and I can definitively say that the way to increase your influence score is to post lolcat pictures.

Sure, and some jobs I had more influence and others I had less. But at the end of the day, it's not your baby. You don't have to live with consequences, and you don't get to. I eve…

It's a big topic. To the author's point, the role of free time changes a bit once you have been able to plan your free time over a period of years rather than months. It takes on a…

Yeah, of course. I wasn't shocked that they could find my name, only that they would -- that doesn't happen in steerage.

Zynga's games have become a short-hand for immoral game design. I understand why some people don't like the games, but I'm sad to see this go into popular culture as a truism. It's…

I flew first class the other day. I don't usually. I found myself startled -- and not pleasantly so -- when the flight attended used my name when asking whether I might like someth…

Would love to hear the follow up after a couple of years. I did freelancing for six years & the benefits and drawbacks both become a lot more starkly drawn -- & somewhat different …

I'm less security paranoid; I would be content with universally accessable/syncable cloud storage at a reasonable price that simply worked and wasn't tied to some particular corpor…

I think there's something else interesting here in the relationship between engineering managers and project managers. The author writes: "It's been undone by a continuing erosion …

I think the author understands the depth of this acceptance of Agile when he writes: 'Today they’re surrounded a vast army of scrum-masters and evangelists, recycling (competently,…

When I've done it, I've done it as a status log at the bottom of the README, or in a separate file in the project. But I think your level of detail is just right: it doesn't look r…

I'm not quite sure what the point of this blog post is. I guess it's to re-start his blog, and restarting a blog often lacks a good hook, and may be heavy on the backstory. Hopeful…

Call me cynical, but I wonder (A) what is the real motivation behind this, & (B) how seriously is this campaign going to be pursued in unfriendly terrain? I suppose the Singapore t…

I like it. I have done some things like this in the past, but not in as much detail as yours. Very inspiring!

Seems ok. Not sure it's the "answer" to making sense of a codebase, but it's certainly addresses part of the problem. Why do you number your files, e.g. 003parse.cc?

Thanks for the link, that's pretty interesting. Do you use a modification of this now, or have you simply codified that approach internally and commit intuitively?