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The outgoing product is nevertheless fully determined by the incoming work being done. It would make more sense to group a set of tasks into a deliverable than a time period. You h…

Sprints to me seem completely contrived. In reality, there are only things that people are working on, and things that no one is working on. There's no need for a third category of…

Moreover it might not just be developer time vs. latency that's being traded off. Maintaining a stateful websocket connection on the server side isn't cost-free, and that connectio…

> There is no good way for a person to identify another person without first mutually agreeing on Brand identities. How is this absence not a good thing? If someone wants to be ide…

> if they pump out people that don't have skills over time their "Prestige" doesn't amount to much I think you're underestimating the degree to which corrupt, inept institutions ca…

Hippies are at least as greedy as anyone else.

Anything that is more advanced than necessary is too advanced to be comfortable with.

It's a great, succinct post. Deeply uncool. A programmer should be modest about their skills, skeptical about new-new things, eschew bullshit, and terrified of dependencies. I buy …

While I agree that in many cases JSON parsing is not the largest consumer of resources, it really sucks when it is. At some point it seems like a general mindset shifted from makin…

At risk of embarrassing my self statistically, what exactly happens when you do this? I.e., if you're controlling for country, that means you're bucketing by country, and looking a…

> However, if the top-level politicians, who remain technically inept, are the ones giving the orders, confusion will remain. The converse would also be true though; a technologica…

If I recall correctly, one theory is that octopuses are such voracious cannibals that a swift demise after reproduction evolved to keep them from eating the next generation.

Wow... if dreaming evolved twice, I don't know what to think.

I found it incomprehensible from the start. EDIT: The first five sentences invoke Uber, the author's previous article, the Wall Street Journal, Gurley, Damodaran, and two different…

I really wish the author had sensed the limits of his argument, because I think the point he's trying to make is basically correct. He's just stretching it to the breaking point by…

If the VCs are being bankrolled by Saudi money (via Softbank) that has noplace else to go, because no one wants it, the money might not dry up. With this in mind, Khosrowshahi may …

I like Chrome for Javascript development/debugging, but I don't use it for anything else.