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Understand the business goals. Understand the _customer's_ goals. Bring better ideas to the table on how to achieve them using your understanding of what is the ideal mix of easy/h…

Perfect time to quote one of my two 'must have parenting books', The Collapse of Parenting. "To become a better parent, one must become a better person."

Big win for JavaScript DSL composers. Reminds me of method_missing and other sharp knives in ruby.

I don't believe claims of perfection were made. Merely claims of a standard of excellence.

So you're an IC suffering under "incompetent management". Yeah sometimes you just can't work around this, but often times you can learn to sell your ideas better to those specific …

Doesn't understand bayesian logic! Doesn't understand risk management!

From the flash message on: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta... "Apple is supplying this information to help you plan for the adoption of the technologie…

Maybe now Heroku will cut their hosted PG prices down a bit.

That's a new definition of "engineer" for me. Didn't realize that having a degree was a prerequisite of the title, like getting a PhD gives you "Dr."

Actually, DeveloperAuction is moving into other cities soon enough. After speaking with the team a bit, I got the impression that they see Silicon Valley as the testbed so they can…

Yeah but the maintenance overhead on such complexity... Just wait till the teenage years! Nah, given the design decisions inspiring this codebase, I don't have any reason to believ…

Our solution to recruiter spam: Become a recruiter. I'm sorry but how is your business model any different from that of a recruiter? (Other than claims of human or AI filtered qual…

It's a joke. Tongue in cheek, self referential and self deprecating with a dash of realism. Made me chuckle.

Step 1: Throw out this attitude. It's utterly useless. Step 2: Go bomb five technical interviews and learn from them. Step 3: Ace the sixth.