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"Developers" or "good developers"? Important distinction.

I can't see why they are any exception from politics, budgets, old systems, problems finding smart recruits, empire building, and lack of leadership, management and direction. We s…

Everywhere else in government, IT systems are generally bad, or old, or underfunded, or outsourced to some foreign services company. Making anything happen is slow, political, time…

Much of the article is retelling of the storylines.

Can I just say, after years of neglect and falling behind the industry, fuck Safari.

I would have switched to typescript but I had to rename EVERYTHING from something to something else in order to use TypeScript. If that's how "compatible" starts, well, no thanks c…

I think Gates, even if he had to give an exclusive license to IBM for DOS, would have come up with an operating system for the other computer companies demanding one. Paul Graham i…

The most insightful post on recruiting ever written: http://carlos.bueno.org/2014/06/mirrortocracy.html

So it's because a religious person felt uncomfortable about a non religious person (Crockford presumably)?

Why do you assume your preference for IRC is everyone's preference?

What computer technology's not Chinese made?

Stand up cowards and respond to this excellent comment. The conference organizers are making me feel uncomfortable.

Defamation. That's the word I've been looking for.

We smash people for this and don't blink an eyelid to the violence and privacy violations of our government.

TV software is so deeply ordinary. It's a massive missed opportunity, but TV manufacturers just don't "get" software.

Please justify your assertion that there is a general belief that passionate means long hours. It's not true. If your point is that great developers don't have to work long hours t…

Latency is a bitch.

It's just hit me, I don't feel that anything really exciting and innovative has come from Apple for a long time. Is this what the computer industry's leading company has become?

What's left? Government demands complete access to every aspect of your life in every way. No, wait, that's what they already have.

Tech guy sounds naive plus responsible for the outcomes and maybe should just accept lesson learned.

Is there a limit for some reason of the optical pictures that we could get of planets in other systems? What's the best theoretical direct image picture possible of a planet in ano…

Serverless isn't serverless either - it's pretending someone else's server doesn't exist.

Is this real or marketingspeak? Are there YC companies here who can describe what the actual benefits are of being a member of YC? My understanding of all venture capitalists is th…