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Fabrik | Full-stack | Full-time | Remote | $100-150k Fabrik is a publishing platform that leverages our proprietary CMS and Ad Ops expertise to manage publishers' engineering and r…

If you read through some of Alan Kay's other Quora posts there is some more context behind this. It goes a bit deeper than just the tools we build. We don't think like programmers …

The best thing in the last year was that I made a mode for my job. All of my work repos are under the same folder so the mode gets activated for any file under that folder. It's sm…

One benefit of the ethereal nature of digital is that editing is really easy which is part of what makes digital so appealing. The downside is that it makes it hard to silence your…

Assuming that the probability of being hit by lightning is higher than the probability of dying from COVID under 30, it does not follow that one should take the similar levels of p…

There are some books out there that cover the very little that we do know (I've read a bunch of them) but the big takeaway is that we don't know a lot. The reason is that you can't…

The specialty actually provides context for the other subjects. You don't learn to write for the sake of writing, you write about chess. You get to practice the foreign language at…

I highly recommend reading the book. It's probably not what you expect. He makes a compelling case that we should consider the opposite of your question: does letting kids wander a…

Code is data. `(f foo bar)` is both a list of symbols and a function call.

You might be interested in reading Maria Montessori (of Montessori school fame). Her stance is very much towards molding the environment rather than the child. She basically says t…

I see this problem with a lot of big policy. It's sold as a rewrite when in practice it has to be implemented as an incremental refactor. The two have different implications and tr…

One of the main takeaways in this talk addresses this directly. He's not advocating for everyone being smart, in fact being smart counts for very little. So how do we move forward …

I would really recommend seeing a therapist that practices cognitive behavioral therapy. I was where you are. Reading about CBT didn't help. I had to go and talk to a professional.…

The problem is these lessons are, for the most part, already out there. Unfortunately, some things you just have to go through to really learn. All of the mistakes I made were ones…

I've been looking into how to improve my writing as well. One of the things that I've learned is that good writing is the result of good sentences. Sentences, not words, are the ba…

The self-employment study says that when people who are self-employed switch to dependent employment their wages are at least as high as their dependent employment counterparts. Fr…

I've seen this in iOS code. I think it's partly because MVC gets pushed so hard. For a new programmer, it seems as if the code has to fall in to one of those three buckets. Views a…

There's a way to eliminate the reuse problem as well. If you make the services event-based and only let them speak to each other through messages then a service can never use anoth…

Bacteria is needed for composting to happen. Milk with antibiotics in it would hurt that process.

The market isn't necessarily efficient at a given point in time. Just because the stocks are going up, doesn't mean the valuations represent the intrinsic value of the company. Sho…

Why shouldn't I take pride in my work? >When facing an implementation choice, should a developer opt for solution A, which uses ugly code, or for solution B, which is beautiful? Th…