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I found contentment required years of therapy and two types of antidepressants. Turns out if you feel you always need something new you may be depressed! Who knew.

This is truly a sad time. You were doing such good work, and I'm sorry you're suffering through this.

True. We mostly create prototypes which are then matured by other companies. We're coders - lots of people a few years out of school, with some experienced guys. Basically, if you …

I run a software engineering department in a large R&D/thinktank company. Recently we've been getting pushback about why they should keep our relatively expensive department rather…

MITRE. (www.mitre.org) When I joined at 43 the average age of the company was in the late 50's. It's dropped a bit, but not much. And I run the DevOps group in my department, so we…

My last employer identified a developer's workweek at 8 hours. The assumption was the other 32 would be consumed by meetings, email, and other crap.

Replay, by Ken Grimwood. It made me look at my life and think about how I'd replay it if I could. It's about as introspective as I ever get.

Lock In And Head On by John Scalzi. The only book of his I've enjoyed more is Red Shirts.

I'm putting together a Halloween display of scary code sample (SQL injections come to mind). What would you add to the scary code display?