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>> Give everyone a long probation period, and allowing them to seek feedback frequently as to how they can influence the decision to hire them on a more permanent basis so that the…

Here is a developer's account who worked under Sinofsky during Windows 7 development http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2008/10/15/engineering-7-...

Facebook for me is just an address book of all my contacts. I never share anything personal there due to the number of privacy settings I need to hop through to make sure I shared …

That's paid over two years and you usually don't get yearly bonus during that time.

I really like books from Manning publications. Their "in action" series are excellent.

If you are using Chrome, Go to dev tools and delete the modal dialog part using "Edit as HTML". You will be able to navigate through the site.

>> Larger companies get away with inefficient recruiting because they can. I would disagree. I interviewed with MS, Google & Amazon multiple times. MS & Amazon are definitely much …

Great points! A lot of this advice matches with Scott Berkun's "Confessions of a Public Speaker". Excellent actionable advice on public speaking. http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-…

" I know people who ask "how can I run more?" and I ask "well, do you enjoy running?" and usually they say they don't. I don't tell them they need to buy different shoes or gadgets…

>> Don't use a 'moving mouse'. Apple magic trackpad is great. Trackballs are great as well. I have used Apple Magic trackpad for almost an year and I started having severe discomfo…

One of my friend always take his personal laptop to the onsite interviews and asks the interviewer permission to type code on his IDE for whiteboard exercises. He didn't have a pro…

Glad that you bought this up. If you have more knowledge regarding this, can you please explain how exactly the posts & nested comments are stored directly using flat files. How ar…

>> she takes 30 lines to write what should be written in 15 or 20, she introduces bugs that QA has to spend their time on, and she doesn't really grasp the concept of writing code …

Apparently they do send a text link. >> A web link is sent as a text message to anyone that does not have the app so they don't miss out. http://hipvite.com/learnmore

How many software systems are even 1% as battle tested as a "CPU"? Even the most well designed software system doesn't have the kind of test coverage of a hardware.