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This advice might work at Uber or as a consultant but for FTEs it sounds like a great way to get fired. I consider myself a product-minded software engineer, but trying to be this …

Yeah, the main reason I would pay for this would be to put the project in my portfolio. I have my own portfolio page though; I wouldn’t be interested in hosting it on a third-party…

> XML is also pretty difficult to read I’d say this is schema-dependent. If you’re talking about plist files, sure; those are ugly and unintuitive. But on the whole I find XML far …

I was furious with that. First off, all I knew was that invites were being sent out on Tuesday. Then after intermittently refreshing my inbox all morning and into the early afterno…

While I appreciate your viewpoint, it is not obvious to the reader. I think it is more important to not alienate women any more than already happens in this industry, than it is to…

Downvoted already! Sexism in tech is alive and well I see.

This, more than anything else I have read on the subject (plenty), is the most compelling reason I can see for having a cofounder. However, solo founders are not necessarily “alone…

Pat Flynn’s site and podcast: http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/

As someone who has been stressing over “needing a cofounder” lately, this is an encouraging and timely post. However, I dislike the phrasing here: > a 100% owner requires half the …

Ah OK, I was just going off of a quick glance at a Wikipedia timeline. And I’m saying “CSS 1” etc. the same way people call the original Playstation “PS1”. Hindsight is always vers…

I wonder if he actually intended anyone to find that, except maybe his college buddies. I know that I would certainly think twice about leaving snarky comments in my resume HTML, b…

Do entrepreneurs ever make good employees?

“Research on the Web seems to be fashionable these days and I guess I'm no exception. Recently I have been working on the Google search engine with Larry Page.” This is beyond trip…

As someone who is looking for work and finds nearly all of it through LinkedIn, canceling my account is not something I can afford to do at this time. As much as I empathize with t…

It's horrible for usability. If you don't have JavaScript on, you lose the ability to submit comments entirely. Not that Facebook was very usable with JS off to begin with, but sti…