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Sounds like the setup at WeWork offices. Granted, it's a co-working space instead of a single company's office, but I found it to be a good mix when my company worked out of WeWork…

>If he's willing to do that, then he'll have to exercise what he already has vested. Not necessarily. It depends on the terms of his or her options grant. Many companies give emplo…

From reading the post it seems like her dad made this decision for her, which feels a bit off to me. While the school may not have been serving her needs intellectually, I can see …

I'm curious to hear which companies/developers out there are already using Swift in their production apps. I'm also seeking general opinions on how production-ready the language/to…

As an outsider to scaling issues, what strikes me about SoundCloud's struggles with shedding their Rails past is how similar their problems sound to Twitter's problems. Granted, a …

You're making a big assumption, which is that all those good engineers love to live in Silicon Valley and want nothing more than to stay in the area their entire lives. For each on…

A well-articulated point, but I disagree with ruling out the concept on this basis. Affordances could be made to make this sort of concept more usable. For example, the pinch could…

I'm familiar with a couple of vendor solutions but this is the first platform-agnostic one I've come across. Looks promising, excited to check it out. We used UserVoice's iOS SDK f…

> Quality of product is unimportant. Hmm... is there a company out there whose sales disprove this statement? ... Oh yeah, Apple. Maybe you forgot about them?

We don't know what happened, that's the problem. FTA, "To make matters worse, the government won't disclose its reasoning for requesting the gag, effectively shutting the public ou…

Not sure it should be obvious you don't. Pull requests are especially well-suited for a team environment, but using PRs in a solo project can still give a higher level of structure…

Thread for the announcement has been buried for some reason, but it's here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7526619

He covers that here: http://www.walkercoderanger.com/blog/2014/02/javascript-mine...

Depends on whether or not quality of the product is a factor in your cost calculations. It should be, and for many startups and solo developers, it absolutely is.