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I live in WA state and really just get to WFH when I want to. Many of my team members are full time remote though and there are many wonderful things about WA. Seattle (where I liv…

Yeah, I feel you. Like I wrote about, I can feel myself growing toward the middle though I like to feel like I care about my company's raison d'être. On the same token, I regret se…

It has been a while since I contributed to HN! I sat down to share some thoughts and ideas that have been useful to me weighing new jobs against my career goals. Hope you find some…

Howdy folks! This is for my Startup Weekend project, Codealong http://codealong.org/ . We want to help connect innovative educators with developers who want to volunteer their time…

Hi! I'm also a Startup Weekend employee. You might check out http://startupweekend.mx/ and say hi to our colleagues Gustavo and Melina. They may also have some insights into the Me…

Is there a difference between that and "release early, release often, release broken"?

Great question, and I would invite any other developers in here to reply as well. Where to start...having open conversations with your developers is a great place to start. It turn…

How exciting! Are you going to pitch an idea?

I'll definitely suggest that to somebody in the office :) Thank you for your comment.

I almost had that point in there, but cut it before publishing. I also had a point about "your code generation tool isn't good enough."

Whoa, he went away. I still have the response saved on my desktop if anybody is curious about the context.

Those are certainly great points. With regards to technical debt, I feel like it's trading one form of dying for another. Eventually bugs and performance issues will bring product …

I was actually a PM before I became a developer. Do you think there is anything missing?

I'm glad! I had to keep the list short for the blog, but I think this would be a great place to collect other ideas. What 10 points would you have written?

Hey all. This is my first post to HN and also my first contribution to the Startup Weekend blog as an employee. I think the subject matter would be interesting here and would love …