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The most incredible sound system to hear a band play out of tune and out of key for 90 minutes.

Couple points to follow up. - US based business, Boston. Taxes are higher, rent is higher (when you needed rent). Salaries are higher (if you want good people). As the founder, I w…

This is otherwise known as a "lifestyle business". It's the north star for most people and should be but it's not easy. If you build a $500K a year SaaS business and have very litt…

Authors bio is exactly what is wrong with software development today. Too many people who've made money at FANG companies who now think they are experts in the field because they g…

I would point to Jim Jordan and all the other Republicans after January 6th who didn't honor a subpoena and toss them in the trash. Nobody in our government honors them, why should…

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Meh. I won't switch to a Linux laptop until I can get a reasonable resolution on the screen that matches my MBP's output for a reasonable price. I can't understand why I can't get …

This isn't for QA. It's for RPA, which automates processes. UIPath is a billion dollar software company doing this...

Unpopular opinion. But starting a business around AI is a bad idea -- it's a tool not a business. AI is the "Object Oriented" of our times. It'll end up being something that will b…

Major colleges are an absolute ripoff. If I asked you to give me $250K so that I could give you an $80K salary to start, which isn't a given, would you take that investment? Commun…

then he gets more than 10 users on it...

https://pragmaticstudio.com/tutorials/adding-tailwind-css-to...

Where Phoenix does a better job with all this and you don't have Ruby's baggage anymore.

Another reason to move to Elixir from Ruby...

Docker has made most mocking nonsensical considering how easy it is now to use the real thing... But I would disagree with the premise of mocking as being non-starter. Often times …

as soon as he went all "the managers", i knew he'd been poorly educated around Scrum. The funny think about Scrum is that upper management doesn't like it. They'd rather operate in…

I came from the company that virtually invented Scrum (Easel Corp / Jeff Sutherland) -- showing my age now, I assure you -- it wasn't invented to give non-technical people the powe…

IMHO, No it's not. This isn't Dropbox or FTP. Conceptually, some of thing things Git does is are not easy concepts to distill into a couple commands to achieve what Git sets out to…

and why was there a "master" key?

When Pro tools, Reason and all the major "creative" apps decide to port over to Linux (remember, Microsoft's desktop is moving in this direction), I think the macbook's days will b…

Someone needs to explain to me what the benefits of NoSQL with MongoDB are when you have the JSONB column type and the ability to query and insert at the field level with JSON in P…

Not naming the company, but I know of a startup that's got a round of $10M (not much but enough) who just applied for relief because their burn rate is $200K+ a month. They have no…

Article headline is really incorrect, should be "The Most Unremarkable Mysterious Song on the Internet." There's a reason why people didn't put their name on it.

I wouldn't want to work for a company that frowned upon a gap in work experience based on a medical issue. If the topic comes up, tell the truth. If they balk, you should run fast …