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I’m sad to learn that Mary Chung’s is gone. There was little better than a double order of extra spicy suanla chaoshou with a can of coke on a cold day.

How common is it for websites to have RSS feeds, anymore?

> How do I figure out if HR/recruiting would want/need my idea(s)? My best advice is to try to make the sale, even before you have something ready. You'll learn what parts of your …

Regardless of your current, perceived skill level, you're already an expert to someone else. Start writing, be awesome, teach others.

- clear understanding of the problem I am being asked to solve - major influence (if not outright ownership) of the solution to that problem Good bullet points for anyone who works…

That's a great idea. Do you have any devices in your house, yet?

I believe that people want help finding "smart home" devices that will work well with the existing equipment in their home, and that they would pay good money for that because buyi…

It's more likely that they require blue ink so they can distinguish the original from a photocopy.

Complete guess on possible engineering teams that could make up that 250-350 people: SEO/acquisition, various "admin"/marketplace functionalities (adding, removing, updating produc…

My best and completely uneducated guess would be location to warehouses. Maybe even cross-referenced with typical orders in the area and Amazon's actual ability to get some amount …

We've hired 2 (so far). I was hesitant at first since those boot camps sound like a for-profit college. One of the hires has been on my product team and is a total badass. Better w…

This is really impressive. How did you secure the games and scores data?

Yeah, very much agreed. I have to scrape schedules together to populate games for my ticket site ( http://www.boxrowseat.com ). The popular sites are wising up to scraping of infor…

My favorite part: "The next step involves complex analysis of historical bathroom visit data, to allow for statistical insight into bathroom habits. Oh, and a 💩 icon for when the …

I'll tell you what I'd do, man: two chicks at the same time, man.

Wow. Imagine the author's blog post when something actually significant happens in his life.

> Also good to know that there will literally ALWAYS be people willing to minimize the broken promises of corporations At some point, people realize that corporations exist to maxi…

In related news: I am no longer with my college girlfriend, despite the fact that 8 years ago I told her I would never leave her.

If it's really just a front-end bug, chances are they're getting lots of calls just like yours. You may just be part of a pile of callback tickets once the bug is fixed and all the…

Relax. The guy writing the article is likely a journalist, not an engineer.

High fives don't pay the bills.

I swear that Stripe is monitoring my private repo. It's like they know exactly what kind of hacky workaround I just implemented on my project and wrote something to support it in a…

Connections should eventually lead to money (directly or indirectly). If you want money, ask for advice. If you want advice, ask for money.