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I welcome a coworker refactoring a section of the codebase to make it easier to change in the future. I do not like it when a coworker, new to the project, assumes that a certain w…

I think it's normal to work 50-60 hours a week if you don't actively track your time. When I was going to the office, I actually worked a lot less. I averaged around 35-40 hours. N…

One thing that bewilders me is the time commitment to writing a blog article. It seems like a lot of these high-profile developers are churning out blog posts. It takes a lot of ti…

This is what I had in mind as well. The difficulty ramps up quickly! I just had to do a couple of these and felt confident enough to start applying to jobs.

I never heard about cheat engine before. Are there similar tools for other platforms? I know you can hook GDB to any running process, but once you're in the process, discovering wh…

I was surprised by the counts[$1] = counts[$1] + 1, since I didn't think it would correctly coerce a non-existing value to a 0.

yes that would also work! I forgot about the `-c` argument for uniq.

nice, I finally took the time to read the man pages for awk. And whipped out a script to count the number of errors occurred for a particular day for a postgres log file. cat logfi…

Working on creating a SaaS app to help and facilitate customer demos. It's not impressive but I have never shipped an actual app or tried monetizing something, so I'll start with t…

Thanks! I'm creating a sight reading trainer using vexflow right now. I just checked out pitchy.ninja, it's awesome! I've been struggling doing ear training and singing over the pa…

It is definitely good to have a choice between OEM and aftermarket parts. That is important! I am willing to bet that if GE allowed aftermarket replacements, the majority of custom…

The MIT Entrepreneur course on EdX also mentioned dominating a beachhead market. Their definition is, "A beachhead market is the place where, once you gain a dominant market share,…

I have noticed that popular repos with "good first issue" labels on issues tend to have those issues claimed fairly quickly. There is real competition in trying to display and asse…

Has anyone developed a simple SaaS solution and had it cloned before gaining market traction? The app that I developed is extremely simple and took about 5-7 hours of development t…