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Ads have many specialized requirements that you wouldn't really want to build yourself. Tracking, tokenization of url parameters, rotating ads to meet impression goals, and typical…

We give fizzbuzz style tests to all our candidates. Most fail, but it's not an indicator of experience at all. Some of the quickest to pass just got out of GA and never worked in t…

I agree with you. This article is incredibly, just woefully dead wrong. I have interviewed hundreds of programming candidates. Reviewed thousands of lines of code. Programming is a…

Well that has a smell doesn't it. There may be a use case where you feel the need to stuff a url with json data, but it sure feels wrong.

Every time I have to debug another problem in Wordpress, every time I encounter another bug in WP's core code I raise my head up and cry, impotent rage against the nameless void. W…

It doesn't necessarily make sense when you have a team working on different things, front-end devs working on the templates and back-end devs working on services, etc. Furthermore …

I think the only way people would be comfortable is if you use strong one-way encryption, meaning you yourself cannot decrypt a user's data. But to enable trust, and being a startu…

As a forty something manager - I want to work around people who know things I don't - I want to learn from them. And I do every day :) But ageism is real and you most likely felt i…

geezer here - You don't really have to relearn everything every 5 years, but yeah, part of what I love about tech is that I'm always learning and ready to adopt cool new technology…