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The hardest part during the transition is to give up doing what you love and excel at (coding) and instead doing something foreign and way more nebulous. But every time you feel th…

Just like many things in life, its all about building that habit in the first place. The most important thing is to be fiercely disciplined when it comes to carving out dedicated t…

I’d caution against jumping to conclusions. The author did say that he was emotionally shut down and wasn’t intaking any of the coaching sessions. It’s very possible that the CEO/C…

I'm the Engineering Manager for the Reviews team at Reflektive (performance management SAAS), and I have to say that this article rings true with me personally and aligns with our …

I'm the Engineering Manager for the Reviews team at Reflektive (performance management SAAS), and I have to say that this article rings true with me personally and aligns with our …

It'd be helpful to have more context about your development experience. I've done some iOS development in the past, and as spapas82 mentioned once you understand the core Android c…

I've been in a very similar situation before (one of the first engineer hires in a company that grew to about 15 people when I left). It's great that you're loyal and conscientious…

My parents immigrated to America in the 80's from China, and they simply thought that a college degree was the gateway to social mobility. They never thought that the skills learne…

This interoperability-focused approach brought the obvious question of adopting an existing open-source rendering engine such as WebKit. While there were some advantages, upon furt…

If price is a concern, I recommend checking out Indiegogo Life ( https://life.indiegogo.com/ ). It's a pretty stripped down product compared to the rest, but they only charge credi…

Additionally, Kickstarter has the concept of "tipping", which means that contributions get refunded if projects don't reach their fundraising goal. Sites like GFM have no such requ…

I work in a crowdfunding startup where GoFundMe is our #1 competitor. We knew they were dominating the personal causes space, but we didn't know they were doing THIS well. I have m…

Politics is one of the most valuable lessons learned at a big company. Although I work in a small startup, all the management is from big companies. Like any other startup, what's …

Great video OP! Really inspiring stuff. Rooting for you and your game! :D

I'm digging the exception messages... really informative :D

There's a fork out there called EventMachine-LE, which is currently in active development for latest features (i.e. IPv6). https://github.com/ibc/EventMachine-LE Anyway, just wante…