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What are your thoughts on something like Sublime Text? That's a product which is highly praised by the community, yet remains closed source.

I find that house, trance, dance, drum and bass are energetic enough to motivate me without proving to be too much of a distraction. Here's my Spotify playlist for coding: http://o…

Would you recommend attending any of these "hacker house" places I've seen on sites like Airbnb? Is that a good way to meet people who'd be offering jobs or would you end up around…

For the past year I've been a frontend software engineer at an up-an-coming UK startup. In the interest of furthering myself as an engineer (with the intention to mould myself into…

Thanks for the advice. Since first posting I've come to a mutual agreement with the company whereby I have left in order for me to find a role that allows me to further my software…

I graduated a year and a half ago and have been with my current company since then. I used to work part time as a developer during university so I've probably got closer to two yea…

I'm a software engineer building web apps for a UK based startup, with offices in the South West of England, London and San Fransisco. The opportunity to move to London has recentl…

So if this is just an issue of certain add-ons being disabled because they're incompatible with X version of Firefox (something that's always been the case), then we're merely in a…

I, for one, welcome the fast release cycle. To me the version number isn't important, new features are. Look at how long it previously took Mozilla to get major releases (and major…

That's a shame for now, but the fact that related artists are presented very clearly (and you're able to quickly see their most popular songs) doesn't make discovery as bad as the …

Unless the US version of Spotify is drastically different from the European version, discovery on Spotify is excellent in my opinion. The Radio feature does exist (although it's no…

Promotion of your apps on the App Store is up to you, not Apple. That being said, if your app is of a particularly good quality then you might be lucky enough to see it featured. Y…

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When Chrome updates it keeps the version you upgraded from in Google Chrome.app > Contents > Versions. I've been removing them whenever I've upgraded and found no problems with doi…

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