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I drank 2-3 Rockstars a day for a few months back in 2007. I knew they were probably not great for me. They made me shake. I just didn't think about it. I also couldn't stop drinki…

One thing that isn't mentioned is that the "friction" in selecting your friends is actually a positive. Instead of someone just shouting out to the world, my friend actually picked…

We also used it a decent amount externally when we did certain kinds of live Q&A Hangouts like developer platform office hours.

I think you misread his paragraph. He was proud of the business the day in its state that day he walked into the accelerator (and presumably for some time before), not BECAUSE he w…

Agree with your comment. I wonder if this is what non-programmers think the advantages of understanding programming are? Looks like the author has never actually held a real progra…

Anecdote alert. I have a wannabe tiger mom. Unfortunately, she had to work full time+++, so full on tiger-ness could not manifest. Just as children of many non-tiger moms DON'T lea…

I went to GDC in 2011. I remember that there was a country trying to talk game companies into opening a branch in their country. It was Germany, I believe. They had a beauty pagean…

No, not at all. Serving meals makes it much easier to convince your team to go to lunch together (though many folks will eat at their desks, PLEASE DISCOURAGE THIS). Lunching toget…

Anyone that has worked in the Valley that knows ex-Yahoos have heard crazy, crazy stories of what it was like. I remember hearing a story about an employee who worked there who wan…

Learn what you want to learn, because your tools will change. Many Ruby programmers came to Ruby because of Rails. I'm part of the camp that stuck around because of JRuby for a whi…

It's been a while, but there was a lot of use of Groovy on Grails a few years ago for exactly this reason. I was a strong advocate of JRuby when we did run Ruby code, but it didn't…

It was only the mobile API server. Shameless self promotion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4615429

LinkedIn isn't constrained to the JVM, as they had some apps running on CRuby 1.8 and node.js, but they do heavily favor the JVM. JVM interop DOES help with much of their existing …

They remodel the offices pretty frequently. Sometimes ... too often, I think.

The answer is yes. There are lots of non code related things that are done from work pods: reading a design doc, joining a video conference, planning work travel, performance revie…

Second example: The Golden State Warriors. Go Dubs!

Worked with John briefly when he was with analytics. Great energy and I wish him the best (bummed he is leaving, though)! He's dead on about how much Google invests in their employ…

I think this is only for new customers, not existing ones.

There's space for both. Coding skills are a single dimension, and should never be the sole attribute for hiring good developers. It's about time management, project management, peo…

s/recruiters/spammer recruiters

I'm no fan of recruiters myself, but using ONLY GitHub can be short sighted. Not everyone contributes to open source. GitHub has yet to launch products for recruiters. Honestly ...…

There's no such thing as no maintenance cost. Everything has a maintenance cost. Make sure unused code doesn't break takes time and resources. Breaking code makes your product look…

I don't think this is what's happening. If I had to guess, they are slowly deprecating the OpenSocial based InApps platform piece (launched in 2008 - http://socialtimes.com/linkedi…