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You can read all you want, but ultimately you have to do it. Get a job at a place where you're part of the backend team, and see how it grows over a few years. You learn a lot of l…

Taking a 6 week course in Ruby will only give you enough knowledge to be annoying and dangerous to your tech leads in whatever future business you start. Even beyond that, I'd bet …

I thought this was going to be about electronic music :(

That's simultaneously quite cool and quite disconcerting. I wonder if there's any work being done in large "control room" type installations these days? Power plants, NASA... ?

I was expecting a view from the block's perspective, looking down. This was a little disappointing, but still quite interesting.

Why is this being downvoted? It's an interesting parallel.

Why? How? Git was purpose-built for the Linux kernel. Like any DVCS it has a big learning curve, but it's even more complex than Hg -- and for reasons that are largely irrelevant t…

Netbooks are the manifestation of a sort of inverse Moore's law, the race to the bottom in consumer electronics. I don't understand people who say they use these things on a daily …

Are you implying Rand was secretly critical of a selfishness-driven capitalism? If so, that's a pretty radical interpretation of her work, and one that I doubt many objectivists wo…

Man, what a great question for a technical interview. Show the candidate the first portion of this list, and ask them to sketch out a program that would generate that list for a gi…

Your comments reveal a person who's never worked in a sizable programming team for any length of time, be it at a large firm, a large collaborative project, or what-have-you. Which…

Your site has to become cool before anyone is going to bother reporting on it. You don't get automatic reporter points just because you feel strongly that you should, or even becau…

A lot of the analysis of Wave so far has (stupidly) focused on the web app that Google was showing off, on the whiz-bang HTML5 bullshit that ultimately doesn't much matter. I think…