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Hey, thanks Matt for providing a well lit path to getting things done on the Internet before anyone knew what they were doing.

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I can't plus this enough. I hired a unicorn business minded, brilliant, can solve any software engineering or UI/UX problem engineer who happened to have a predilection for functio…

Yes you’re right. I guess I was mostly trying to underscore the point you’re making here by being a smidge provocative. +1.

> Work with honest, intelligent people This is good advice that’s well intentioned, but (sorry), it can be interpreted as elitist, and in a way that’s detrimental to the reader. I …

Scientific American is still in print. I guess I don’t know for how long, but I love it.

And here I thought burn out was the inability to do something. Learn something new every day!

I had no idea Haynes was doing this. Hysterical and wonderful. Thank you!

I suppose I’m a grey beard (in industry is 96ish) and I mean, it’s fine as a backend language in so far as dynamically (or even loosely) typed languages go. It’s just as easy (or h…

> I don't have any particular answers to why string templating has been enduringly popular so far (although I can come up with theories, including that string templating is natural…

My tactic is to meditate on the fact that there is always someone better than me at some thing that I’m doing at some point in time. Learned this lesson mostly from sports, fwiw.

does this count as an example of the Two (AI) Generals' Problem?

I appear the only one here who tells someone else (relevant) about my “brilliant” ideas from walks and showers. It’s often my wife about a thing related to our lives, but can be so…

I think the author is describing analysis paralysis. They’re right in the sense that the most complicated work (in my XP) is often demystified with a bit of engineering over white …

A long time ago I was in a fairly desperate technical situation, that to my and my lead’s minds required a stop the world, must fix or all’s lost approach. Product wasn’t having it…

I started doing impactful things by listening to friends express a need for something (like a shopping cart for their auto parts catalog circa 1998) and just doing it (they of cour…

oh my, yes, thank you!

The value of benevolence of shopkeepers to their younger patrons cannot be understated. As a young kid I learned how PCs were put together from the local clone shop on San Pablo Av…