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phone addiction is not the problem, application addiction and products built around addictive loops are the problem.

no, indeed

I can identify with this sentiment completely and fully, as someone with close to 15 years in this industry can be. It's all just the same as Mary in accounting making spreadsheets…

PS4 has been doing this for years through PlayStation Now and Gaikai tech. Remote play works phenomenally well, as does PS Now. You should go pick up a trial of the PC app (psnow.c…

it feels a little silly to say this out loud, but I'm convinced that what Steven Wittens is doing on the web is some of the most advanced and incredible stuff I've seen since the o…

"Just fix the bug, learn whatever you can from it so hopefully you won't do it again" The baggage associated with bugs is so prevalent that we can't talk about them without a real …

The real issue is communication, not necessarily budget, as the reason software projects I've been exposed to fail. A project manager can only get you so far, especially if the tea…

Credit where credit is due, that was lifted nearly wholesale from codinghorror. Wonder how you do liner notes with Medium. I'm a terrible writer, so the rest of the items I've stol…

Absolutely true. Shantytowns are a common parallel to big balls of mud, and I think that would hold true for anything that gets constructed.

Welcome! It's something I was working on for a while.

I would absolutely love a resource like this.

Ember, Ember, Ember. Oh, how I love thee. There are a few types of javascript styles that I've found are pretty common. - Event Based (jQuery-esq) - Class Based with router (backbo…

Looks like the vast majority of this is built as a wordpress plugin. You may run into scaling issues due to the massive amounts of overhead within the wp_loop for this to be someth…

The mental picture of these people, huddled on a bumpy bus, in the middle of the night, being the only regular thing they can look forward to is incredibly saddening. I wish there …

Seems straightforward: - certain combinations of words within phrases score all over the place - hand those to mechanical turk for human classification - understand where the resul…

is the "developers" dig really necessary? MongoDB is fine-- at least until you start seeing significant scale, and even then, it's going to run into the same issues as everything e…