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Another real killer feature of web-based IDEs is zero setup for new engineers. You won’t have to spend a day fiddling with your local env. Everything just works immediately. There …

Oboe | Full Stack Engineer | New York City | ONSITE | $170k-$230k Oboe's goal is simple: teach one billion people one trillion things. We'll do that by building the world's first c…

That comment is clearly sarcastic. And Reddit went from floundering to $10b+ public company.

Business value is a good way to think about it: > As a software developer, fixing bugs is a good thing. Right? Isn’t it always a good thing? > No! > Fixing bugs is only important w…

Don’t forget trello

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Really good one in response to claims that stack overflow could be rewritten in a weekend: https://www.bitquabit.com/post/one-which-i-call-out-hacker-n...

No particular words of wisdom. I was 26 and selling to a big company. It’s nice to have somebody experienced in your corner.

Just adding a data point. I got into YC in 08 but didn’t do it because I sold my company before I had a chance to accept. PG gave me advice during the negotiation with the acquirer…

Fleaflicker | Senior Java Engineer | Brooklyn, NY | REMOTE, Full-time We're looking for a senior Java engineer to help build and scale the backend services that support our popular…

Fleaflicker | Senior Java Engineer | Brooklyn, NY | REMOTE, Full-time We're looking for a Senior Java Engineer to help build and scale our backend java applications. Requirements *…

Fleaflicker | Senior Front-end Engineer | Brooklyn, NY | REMOTE, Full-time We're looking for a seasoned, professional developer to help build the next-generation of our web and mob…

Fleaflicker | Senior Front-end Engineer | Brooklyn, NY | REMOTE, Full-time We're looking for a seasoned, professional developer to help build the next-generation of our web and mob…

Fleaflicker | Senior Front-end Engineer | Brooklyn, NY | REMOTE, Full-time We are a small, highly-focused team dedicated to delivering a best-in-class fantasy sports application to…

Google has a similar tool called Refaster https://github.com/google/Refaster

http://www.research.va.gov/mvp/

Why does everyone keep pointing out Mayer's compensation on this deal? Nobody said a word about the $200M that went Tim Armstrong's way in the Aol deal. [1] Can't help but think th…

Trying to acquire talent is not a terrible approach. From http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html In theory you could beat the death spiral by buying good programmers instead of hirin…

From 7 years ago, by Bret Taylor (who went on to become CTO at Facebook after acquisition): How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data https://backchannel.org/blog/friendf…

When you look at user tests, no one pauses to read this text. And the very few who do immediately forget what they read... Even though some of the technologies discussed are hillar…