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Very good read that highlighted the current state of the industry - G and FB reign as kings. I'd expect the fraud cycle to restart in gaming industry seeing that display and mobile…

Expected people skills, business domain knowledge, architecture and security as well. Good articles based on the arguments but fell short of covering the major points.

Their drivers (majority of the workforce) have no welfare to speak of. Wait until Uber becomes really big like 90s' Microsoft then you'd see the rest of the Walmart deeds. It's the…

I have been through very similar situations like yours during my early day jobs. It's that fire that we always had, fresh out of colleges and into the workforce, the drive to do go…

Not from me, you aren't. I'm an old soldier in this game (by webdev standards of 6 months for a new framework) and I have tended to switch over to the latest stuff almost every yea…

Yeah, such a poignant read that cuts to the heart of the problem - our needs to associate and express.

I suppose this is how you gain fame these days, writing sensational counter-arguments instead of coding? Oh right, the author is a 'Ruby Activist', he couldn't help it. PHP has won…

When you have the unique skill, you're better off being labelled as 'consultant'. The terms might be used interchangeably yet I've seen the power dynamics being consultant > full-t…

Same argument for enterprises can be had here. Way too risky to let the existing house of cards (stack) to perch atop a product that can be discontinued at anytime (I'm looking at …

Contractors are second-class citizens at best, at any places so what was she expecting exactly? I don't mean to deride the writer but I'm honestly not sure if the janitors would th…

Here's where expectation should be set for both candidates and interviewers. The point of solving Fizz Buzz problems is to open up angles for discussion. What would you do differen…

I would give those candidates the FizzBuzz problem just to see if they can actually code from scratch or `require('fizz-buzz-solver');`. I care more about their competence than wha…

The problem here is JS developers have baked in the notion of having NPM as the alternative to Google + StackOverflow + own thoughts. It's really a no-brainer (literally) to just s…

Yes, until people stopped publishing isInteger and isArray as `packages`. Plus, stdlib is standard library. Can you cite one for JS? NPM is not.

I doubt something like 'wrote npm package that averages stuff' would be relevant without fluffing it up to impress the non-tech hiring manager. Still would ring alarm bells with de…

Just sugar-coated kool aid I'm hearing. Community benefits? First of all, I'm coding to get paid and this recent madness proved that JS ecosystem is semi-garbage. Back to the origi…

Good point there. Pseudo-anonymity (or should I say, pseudonym-based) is the first step towards better privacy and decentralised transactions, not the solution. Still, we have the …

Only if I publish my address and leave patterns behind. Agree that it's debatable then again, wouldn't you agree that in a relative sense, pseudo-anonymous is better than bank acco…

TL;DR cashless with anonymity and decentralisation. Sounds like Bitcoin.

This Dilbert strip says it best http://dilbert.com/strip/2011-04-14 .

1) Don't expect 9-5 work if you are in anything remotely high-impact like software or sales. 2) Hard to specify since it varies on the kind of company/sector. PM me if you have som…

That's both pleasant and disappointing to hear. Believe me, if they offer you S$90k base, that's already considered a fat salary.

I silently added those who said that to a certain blacklist. Been through enough of 'Me - I'm in Software not IT. Them- But it is IT since you work with computer right?' ping pong …

Disagreed. In a free-for-all environment like FOSS, collective lack of details means more time wasted to gather/request for relevant information. Maintainers have the rights to req…