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Great advice. Also extends to teams, 'What do we all know well enough to execute?' should trump 'What would be fun?' every time. I've worked in situations where someone saying 'Oh …

I've worked with people who burned out and had to take time off days before deadlines doing demonstrably less than others who worked 9-6 and made sure it mattered. Delegation is ce…

Instaparse is great. I've used it just enough to know how powerful it is, in a weekend project to write an org-file parser.

In situations like that, much like in real life, it's prudent to have evidence (comments, emails, server logs, whatever) to protect your reputation and show the facts, but that isn…

The ELK stack is great, powerful, relatively easy to use and set up and very configurable. I'd definitely consider it for any dashboard prototyping, given that I've worked places w…

Papers We Love is excellent, some great papers. I forked the repo a while ago, was considering hosting one in Dublin. I think here at least the community seems to have a lot of non…

I think the problem of staying on a version of Photoshop has existed for a long while. I agree Creative Cloud is a big misstep, but surprisingly to me some artist friends really li…

Illustrator seems widely used in brand and web design alright, but for example concept artists and comic artists I know never leave Photoshop, start to finish.

Photoshop definitely wasn't intended for the wide variety of use-cases it now supports, but it is definitely the front-runner for digital painting, 95% of concept artists/comic col…

I'd agree that it's a precarious hold, but when it's lost I expect it'll be because Adobe did something, artists and designers I've talked to aren't interested in alternatives, or …

While I think Krita looks really great what I've found is that artist and designers are some of the most entrenched software users around. The sentiment "you'll want to use Photosh…

Absolutely agree with the first part, have seen this too often, considering it's such an obvious mistake to make. People end up making an 'MVP' that is a whole-cloth beta of what t…

I agree, although with enough users this subjective marking effect can be somewhat mitigated. I'll give an example: Steam allowed people to tag games recently, which lead to a lot …

Is this the entire story? It's true that there are many times more iOS users than OSX users, but what percentage of each are their target market (who I would call 'power users')? P…

I agree with you here, but I think 'stable libraries' is perhaps a good target for a few reasons, right now the culture isn't just bad code, it's "There is no advantage or benefit …

I think it might be significant, or at least hint at a significance worth exploring. Taxi drivers' brains apparently adapt and grow a much better awareness of maps and routes than …

One of the best messages I got from the How To Start A Startup course was an off-hand line during the funding class: the best thing you can do for your funding chances is have a gr…

Especially with games, gameasutra runs postmortems with devs frequently to talk about both successes and failures in their projects.

It seems to take all kinds. If the other party wants to blacklist you they'll usually find a reason to allow themselves to, though usually people are reasonable enough that things …

Absolutely, it's hugely important. The core idea that subjective beings will disagree holds obvious weight, but it takes serious commitment to improving the process to offer up thi…

I've had similar experience, and it can be tough, especially when the lack of interest from a reviewer is obvious. I still joke about the review I got that included the line "Engli…

Having done a CS PhD it very much depends on the field. Yeah you'd be laughed at for running an algorithm to find out run time, but areas like information retrieval tends to involv…

One of the most difficult things to learn as a CS PhD is that you aren't an engineer, you are a scientist, so you spend your time learning to approach problems in rigorously scient…

I continue to feel extraordinarily lucky about my experience with my PhD. It was grueling, it was tough, but I had some fantastic support. I know many who weren't so lucky, and the…