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"It's never too late to have a happy childhood." - Tom Robbins

Of course I would. That's part of managing.

You have just told me why I absolutely should not hire you, at least while you have that attitude. Someone who cannot respond positively to negative feedback is what we call "unman…

How about Spore.js? It's a nice contraction of SproutCore, and doesn't sound as silly as the spoonerism KrautSpore :)

If they are such experts, how would they not be aware of waterfall? Either they are idiots who have no clue about software development methodology, or they are just lying (either t…

One of my favorite Alan Kay quotes: "Make simple things simple, and complex things possible." And the Albert Einstein quote everyone mangles: "A scientific theorem should be as sim…

I agree. Look at nginx vs apache - competition with nginx has done a lot to improve apache. Merb did more to improve Rails than anything else has. New projects with different desig…

This is the seriously awesome talk Coda Hale gave at GitHub's CodeConf in April, reprised at Pivotal Labs in June. The live video isn't the best quality, but the quality of the tal…

Switching sides is good when you're sitting side-by-side. But I haven't noticed that there's enough neck twisting in the tete-a-tete configuration for that to be an issue.

That's correct. We just let them use the space; we don't code with them.