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People have a mental cap on what text should cost. If someone creates instructional content that provides thousands of dollars in value, they can sell videos for $200+, but a book …

In my head I was thinking of a definition like the one below when I wrote that: "Spam is irrelevant or inappropriate messages sent on the Internet to a large number of recipients."…

Many employment contracts prohibit doing additional contract dev work. I agree the spirit of contract to hire is great, but worth noting it won't work for everyone.

I'd double check that you don't have multiple orgs. You used to share a cess to your account with people, then they made some org change a while back that essentially moved that sh…

Go to the bank and say, "I would like to withdraw money from my account." Do they hand you your balance in cash, or ask you how much? Obviously one can withdraw all of something, b…

Does steam take any cut of in-game purchases for free to play games? I don't think they do, so that is a difference to consider.

The most frustrating experience is when I'm already paying for an app and intercom constantly nags me and gets in the way of me using the actual app.

Was this a timed take home project or something with a flexible timeline? That is, was it "You have to respond within 3 hours of receiving this email with your solution" or somethi…

I don't think plausible deniability works on one-of-a-kind artwork. Even if you assume your dealer is legit, any cursory research will tell you it was stolen. It would be like buyi…

Now imagine being the dev who keeps making proposals and working diligently at the problem only to have countless ideas and proposals shot down for one reason or another. Ian Lance…

My guess is you are incorrect and this has more to do with the Ardan Labs partnership[1][2]. This release also came shortly after Bill (founder of Ardan Labs) went to visit Matt an…

Most people - traveled or not - would be okay with this if they knew the service person was making a fair wage. The problem is that service workers are not fairly compensated in th…

The page is a little rushed, but the worst thing you should see is an ugly error message. This is a TRIAL RUN, but if things go well I want to make this a regular thing with new de…

I'd like to expand the course a bit and cover more testing topics, so if anyone has suggestions I'm all ears. Ideally I'd love to hear about situations that were particularly hard …

If you don't show with "good" reason (finances, health issue, etc) they usually do nothing. If you don't show with a "bad" reason then what they do varies, but I've never heard of …

Huh... I was thinking I touched on the Secure field of the http.Cookie when I wrote this article, but I guess I did not. I'll try to find time to update the article with both the S…

I both founded a YC backed startup and I worked at another YC backed startup and had a great experience there. Having said that, I can't say I would ever recommend a new graduate t…

I fear things like this would never work in the US because at this point $14k/yr is nowhere near enough to cover the insane rate at which university prices are rising. Ignoring all…

> That makes it bloody hard to mock during unit testing. Can you share why? Not trying to say you are wrong, but I am guessing that part of this stems from some limitations in the …

Blogging is basically just content marketing, which has been proven to work when done well. It is also one of the cheapest ways to market if you have a little time each week to inv…