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A single mediocre experience optimized to work ‘most of the time’ for ‘most people’ is quite contrary to the narrative that has made Google such tremendous amounts of money (“let u…

I appreciated the way that the reports are organized by problem-being-solved. It might be nice to be able to filter for specific constraints (like "SSO Support") so as to exclude s…

This tweet (https://twitter.com/gossipbabies/status/1487161069143576576) resonated with me and I wonder how common my experience is. Working at smallish web software companies over…

This is how the lead author of the study we are discussing interprets the new information: “Our paper, which had a global impact within 24 hours of publication, provides important …

Is it possible you are agreeing with the author? > Most of my utilities are console command line utilities instead of full GUI and they are very cumbersome to use. That's because I…

Location: Seattle Remote: Possibly Willing to relocate: SF/NYC/LA Technologies: People management, JavaScript/React/Redux, d3, Ruby, AWS, JIRA Resume: https://angel.co/u/cmlaidlaw …

I am also semi car-free in Seattle and can attest to a very satisfying quality of life. I moved here last year. If anyone is toying with moving here and has questions: chris.laidla…

Oops: cmlaidlaw@gmail.com Thanks!

>a spreadsheet containing all the tasks, issues and risks, with owners and dependencies identified is usually enough. >telling people when you're waiting on things from them I'm wo…

Your grandfather's experience is evidence that something was working well. But this is advice that Jack Welch is giving in 2014, and as someone who is clearly still trying to be a …

I don't disagree with your sentiment, but I think that Mr. Welch's advice could be read as extremely cynical as well: maybe he's just telling people what they want to hear, which h…

Author here: Thanks a million! The code is easier to read on GitHub ( https://github.com/cmlaidlaw/waaah ) rather than view-source, if you're curious.

Roughly: 1. The letters and punctuation which comprise a computer program in human-readable form can be translated into a string of numbers. 2. That list of numbers can be looked a…

It has been a while since I read that series of articles, but the gist of it was: -The author predicts that the business side of entrepreneurship will become increasingly commoditi…