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I’m looking for perspectives from people who have actually built or operated long-lived enterprise software. Context (kept intentionally generic): We have a mature, revenue-generat…

So now the newly minted CTOs, get the same authority, credit, compensation, recognition as the real CTO for managing the hearless agents?

I am thinking about, All those parents who are forced to work but always wanted to stay back and provide best care for their kids but couldn't do so.. feeling a gut punch. Parents …

I am wondering what would have happened if the committee chooses another idea instead of Compton's. Would Compton leave the committee? Would Feynman resent the decision? Or they wo…

Over the years, I am convinced that agile process falls into the bullshit jobs category. At one point of time I stared asking a routine question, if we finish all of this work by n…

At the end it is very inspiring to learn that Andre chose tennis on his own to become the number one on his own terms. But somehow it feels very ironic that he chose what he was al…

>If you want a fulfilling career as an engineer, don't work in a cost center. By that definition, I guess the above article is not a help to a whole class of engineers out there. N…

Try strategizing in a mid-sized non technical mid-sized company. Here is where engineers are treated like mechanics at pep boys. You are either ignored or put to your place about t…

The idea that one can 'manage' another seems very primitive to me. Every one that did good job for me did so because they genuinely wanted to do a good job, not because I 'managed'…

I am wondering if Aditya didn't respond the way he did (using corporate lawyer's langauge), Greg would have not reached to this conclusion? I am a bit surprised by the entitlement …

When I was kid, I remember my parents yelling at me playing 'useless' games at the end of the street with my 'good for nothing' friends. When I was a teen, I remember them not liki…

One questions I ask myself to bring clarity is, If I am the one paying bills, would I really pay another developer for this refactoring? Yes: Technical debt it is. No: just busy wo…

Joining a new company is like starting a new life, which doesn't seem to happen many times in a life time. It is like you are being given another opportunity to start fresh. First …

As a side note, Microsoft login echo system sucks big time in the context of office. You have no idea which URL to use to login to office 365. Between login/logout/timeout/other of…

I used to work in a factory floor. Having a job at this factory used to be one of the nice things in the town. For the fear of being driven to work too much, workers refused to inc…

Thank you for writing this. The culture of one software developer deriding on other software developer work by badmouthing his/her work and bragging about how firing the developer …

While I understand that no one could have gotten to a better conclusion I find it a very distasteful commentary. So Rick knew everything about the project, while everyone is simply…

Tried the hello world demo. When I delete the text it won't remove the first typed character from the label. I thought one of the advantages of React/Angular/Vue frameworks is thei…

"all the light bulbs in my home are warm, they emit more yellow and orange than any other color. Like chocolate at midnight, " Now, it is not that easy to find these light bulbs th…

I always wondered if they supported and built a community of teenagers by providing classes, competitions on electronics related projects, and computer hadware, they could have ret…