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The "Magic 2.0" series by Scott Meyer is a fun look at a programmer in medieval England with the ability to edit the world around him Edit: the audiobooks are well done too!

Which will also be a factor of big companies being more willing (or able) to hire junior developers whose entire experience in the language is a boot camp

Check out intercom on github for inter-tab communication. I use it in we apps for many different things. Including log-back-in. One tab gets a session timeout and tells them all to…

From the take-down advice from Google: "After a regular review, we have determined that this app is promoted as a means of carrying out spying or surreptitious tracking of others."…

You comment made me laugh and 'ahhhhh!' at the same time. It now makes sense. He's totally into Apple and hasn't been elsewhere. A few of the things he talks about regarding the UI…

I'd probably include The Eudaemonic Pie in the list -- depending on how define 'hacker' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eudaemonic_Pie

$5 is Fiverr, and $5 on Fiverr gets you rubbish.

In an aquihire, they typically ARE buying the product to get the talent capable of building the product in question. Let's say you've built some product capable of receiving millio…

That it's a one-time deal sounds like a failure on Stellar's part.

It makes no sense to suggest he donate it to charity. He found a pile of people willing to sell him the goods at a price both they and he were happy with. If something like Stellar…

I thought the same .. though there's no decay but it's nice to see the traced path: http://jsfiddle.net/m5MZe/1/

Want to play with it? Here's a fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/GBQ44/

Yesterday on Reddit someone posted their pet sweet potato. Today I'll believe anything.

Surely it's not hard to solve this one? Buy the site. Acquisition style. Now they keep the community, the fan base, the long tail, and the passionate founder. He gets to work on it…

I always wanted to be a lumberjack. Leaping from tree to tree, as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia. The Giant Redwood. The Larch. The Fir! The mighty Scots Pin…

TL;DR: To save y'all from listening to the (interesting) Planet Money podcast: Back in the early C20 depression the auto makers were the biggest companies in the USA. And they'd fo…

So Mall Backup Co takes two copies immediately. One on their local node and one that gets shipped back to base. As soon as you get home you can access your backup (transparently) f…

> But no, the broadcasters want to be paid for not-providing a signal to those customers. Instead of investing to improve their infrastructure, they want to be paid for not improvi…

I'd go further. The jury must convict on all presented charges or none. Throwing 900 charges at someone, as the article says, is a way to force a plea bargain from someone who may …

I don't get the benefit .. the only 'pro' I can think of (spaces in domain names) would be better answered by allowing a space-to-double-hyphen transcoding so hxxp://food in chicag…

I think the author has a point .. however we're all conditioned now to the standard-ish font size on the web. We all sit at a distance from the screen optimised for a particular si…

I'm surprised Disney didn't throw all their weight behind the Doyle estate here. Under this precedent, all attributes of Mickey Mouse created in 1928 (his first appearance) appear …

It sounds, to me, like they should have created a centralised spec for talking to these external system. Then created teams to build the interfaces between that spec, and the exter…

Stopped reading and watching "The News". What a waste of time. If there's something important, someone will tell me about it.

I've done similar, but without any need for Raportive (though I guess my method would have a higher error rate and not work for MEGA corps). You want to get Bob Smith's email at ex…