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This article is from 2017, but has some more technical detail behind DDG than other articles do: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/duckduckgo-anonymous-privacy

Could/should there be an equivalent of a sports manager and/or sports agent? Like a headhunter, only dedicated to a programmer throughout that programmer's career? Hmmm.

Though not exactly the same thing, I like to think of these as spiritual successors: https://ifttt.com/ https://zapier.com/

I think that's the key point here, even if the article doesn't quite highlight it. Technology and social media haven't changed human behavior, but it allows both positive and negat…

By "working under" do you mean having an engineer report directly to a product manager, where the PM is responsible for the engineer's career growth, compensation, reviews, etc? As…

"make bright comfortable" <- Yes, this. f.lux has been great for my eyes too.

Definitely seems to be a preference thing I guess. I'm like you, I find it more uncomfortable reading bright text on dark backgrounds that I often avoid sites that have that color …

Censorship is only a piece of what is disturbing too. Linking searches to personal phone numbers is way more frightening. The articles don't say if phone number logging was only go…

Wasn't there a Silicon Valley (the HBO show) episode about something similar? Ah, found the episode: Season 2 Episode 2, "Runaway Devaluation".

Wow, yikes, you CAN run Javascript in a PDF: https://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat.html

PROS * Potential marketing for your startup, especially if you gain followers that are also in your target audience. * Have a way for someone (e.g. investor, potential employee, po…

Do you have any browser extensions running? It's possible one of them is causing some problems with their IDE.

That's a very sobering article.

I looked up a bunch of similar products about 5 years ago. Just last month, I looked them up again, and found that many don't exist anymore. It's definitely a tough market. I suspe…

Reading this makes me think of all the indie app developers building educational mobile apps. Most of them are parents with the best of intentions. Maybe they started off building …

Hmm. I haven't perceived any slow down. Especially not like others here are saying. Gmail still seems pretty quick to me.

Sorry for the late reply. I believe you can do that: https://getpocket.com/import/instapaper/

And such a great business development strategy at that. It's a win/win for everyone involved. Other online payment providers didn't have the foresight to create Atlas, and it's a t…

I used to love Instapaper, but then migrated to Pocket. Both those kinds of apps serve as both article bookmark managers and article readers.

I once fell into the position of having to hire for a fast-growing new team at a large corporation. We didn't have a manager yet, so our department's VP trusted me to make hiring d…

I really loved the concept behind Google Plus. Really sad it didn't work out for them. I used it a lot, but it never felt quite right. Always felt "beta" and not quite polished. Wh…