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For some companies/teams/hiring managers/interviews, having someone who can reason about big-O complexity and design their own algorithms is important and necessary. There won't al…

If you aren't prioritizing for code quality and beauty, do you also explicitly tell candidates that? I think it's very difficult for candidates to understand exactly what the inter…

I have to object to this. Friends can be an invaluable support. But they are not professionals, and I've been on both sides of friendships where trying to use a friend as a pseudo-…

This is really fascinating. Do you have sources for this? I hadn't even thought about this side of the economic equation.

Nice. I feel you almost sold yourself short making this about "considering a startup", because you have some great general advice on how people should choose the best working envir…

I think my chief interest in these kinds of ideas is in enabling designers/et cetera to flesh out their ideas for certain interfaces/functionality/tools. It's much easier to expres…

I think sometimes we forget that Apple's primary audience doesn't even know what skeumorphism is, and certainly won't call it "regressive aesthetic infantilism" (it sounds cooler t…

"Interface design" should encompass more than just visual aesthetics. These are largely concepts focused on making something that looks good, not concepts that break away from an I…