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Yeah. I feel a lot like this too. I left my most recent job in May and don’t have plans to return to tech anytime soon. To fill my time and to try to do something actually useful, …

Until you are more experienced. Then you should ignore tutorials and read the manuals.

An intuitive, intelligent performance debugging tool that works for any programming language. A similar tool that finds common errors like race conditions, missing null checks, etc…

Before it became a TLD, .dev was commonly used as an extension in /etc/hosts to point a fake domain to localhost during development. These days I use .localhost for that.

On the surface, this sounds like a great idea. The problem is that, once you look at the details, you realize there are none. How is this going to work? Where does that $68bn get r…

Giving away money is not generally an effective solution. Where is that money going to come from?

Can you clarify what you mean by "transit oriented development"? As a general rule of thumb, 10-20 story tall buildings are an eye sore. I don't think it makes sense to make things…

I think it's a stretch to say that the peninsula will remain majority single family home cities. Everywhere I look all I see are new apartment complexes being built.

Yes. :( Edit: I'm in San Francisco.

Well, it depends. I personally don't feel the need to self-promote to get a raise. I'll probably lose out on a few raises or promotions because of that, but I make a good amount of…

You mean you follow good software development practices? Heresy!

Absolutely! Unfortunately, this is very hard to sell to teammates on the SPA bandwagon and management who require all developers to be buzzword-compliant.

Run `( find -E ./ -regex '.*\.jsx?' -print0 | xargs -0 cat ) | wc -l` inside your `node_modules/` folder. It counts lines of code in JS files. Prepare to be sad.

True. There's another thread in here somewhere talking about premature generalization. I think that's what you're getting at with "Do it too soon and you end up choosing the wrong …

If you still use Rails and jQuery, why both with Polymer or Vue? What is the benefit they give you? Promise I'm not giving you a hard time. I'm honestly curious if there's somethin…

> There's still a lot of work out there that really boils down to basic CRUD and reporting at the end of the day, and developers naturally begin to invent complexities on top of th…

Building a website doesn't have to be complicated. You build a Rails site 10 years ago. You probably used jQuery, if you used JavaScript at all. Why can't you do the same today? Th…

The day I learned about premature generalization is that day my speed as a developer jumped by a factor of three. When you're generalizing, it's easy to overlook how much time that…

> Less code is better. I'd change this to "Write as little code as necessary, but no less." The problem with "Less code is better" is that some folks use that as justification to w…

Ego is one of the larger problems I've seen over the years. This usually shows, as you mention, with someone trying to sound smart. The irony here is that I've consistently found -…

At the last company I was at, our search microservice was fast (average response was well under 100ms) and it didn't crash once while I was there. At a larger company, this may not…

I owe every ounce of my love of reading to Richard Adams and Watership Down. Watership Down was the first book of its size that I read and it had a profound effect on me that has s…

Uber doesn't stand to make any money by doing that. Drivers are a huge expense for Uber. Assuming they get these self driving cars with a bulk discount, the cost of not having to p…