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The programmer is only as good as his manager. If a 10x programmer is working under the leadership of a 1x programmer, he will probaby turn into a 0.5x (due to lost motivation). A …

The programmer is only as good as his manager. If a 10x programmer is working under the leadership of a 1x programmer, he will probaby turn into a 0.5x (due to lost motivation). A …

That's why I'm not a huge fan of Coffeescript or even convenience utility libraries like underscore/lodash. They save you a couple of lines or a few opening /closing braces but the…

Being an asshole isn't that effective. Not as effective as being a scheming, manipulative backstabber.

JavaScript is object oriented just like any other language. The difference is that it is prototype-based OO instead of class-based OO. I would say that JavaScript's OO is actually …

The earth and the universe will cease to exist eventually so we might as well make the most of them.

This sounds like it could be useful if you want to have a bunch of IoT devices (possibly on the same network) which interact with each other directly without going through a centra…

Oops I forgot to add tags around it. My bad.

I think it's important for you and your competitors to be aware of how much value you've added to society at any given time - Your company's valuation does that pretty well. It hol…

Wow, how did you manage to do the thoracic vertebrae? I have been trying to achieve that one for years! On the plus side, I was able to master repeated ankle cracking without refra…

Failure is the normal state of things. You should aim to be comfortable with failure. If you don't enjoy the process, then you probably shouldn't be doing it. Most people don't suc…

Yes, socket/pipe-based IPC is more expensive than shared memory up to a point, but it's more scalable since you don't have to deal with locking (mutexes, semaphores) and the limits…

The root of the eventloop issue is not Node-specific. The real underlying issue here is that one CPU core is given too much work while others are more or less idle. Offloading some…

It's a personal observation and also a big generalization. I think maybe it's because extroverts often derive their self-worth from their interactions with others instead of basing…

I think it was a huge mistake to announce Angular 2.0 so long before its release date. In the open source world, you should aim to release the product BEFORE you even announce its …

I think that introverts who can fake extroversion make the best leaders. Natural born extroverts are often selfish and can't relate to others on a deeper level - Only on a superfic…

Developers who say that JavaScript is bad are ones who haven't seriously used it recently. Personally, I've come to prefer (by a long shot) JavaScript's prototype-based OO over tra…

I think cloud providers are mostly good for small/medium, fast growing startups. Big companies need more granular flexibility. The path to vertical integration in the software inds…

I think transparency is good. The secretive (and superficial) society we have now favors cheaters and liars. If there was a way to publicly expose everyone for who they really were…

You are putting too much time into it. If you can't do something in under 50 hours per week, then you're not being efficient with your time. I have a day job at a startup (maybe 45…

I disagree with the concurrency part. Node.js has excellent built-in IPC support through the process and child_process objects. Since Node.js is JavaScript, you can't possibly argu…

Most people are not deep - They don't really think - They just blindly try to adhere to various stereotypes. Everyone does that to some extent (including me) but there are many lev…

I didn't have many friends in school. I never tried to fit in - I found other people in my class to be predictable and uninteresting and it took me too much energy to pretend that …

"Instead it will focus on 'future versions of Glass' with work carried out by a different division to before." Is that division made up of people from Magic Leap by any chance? htt…

Node.js is way better than Go! It's more expressive, more flexible and more portable. ... Thanks for the downvotes. Well worth the bad karma :)