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If the long term positives outweigh the long term negatives you should switch – even if you have held your current position less than one year.[1] The difficult part is determining…

I don't know the answer to your question but it should be a required exercise for every web developer to use their website with a screen reader and a blindfold. It would change the…

When people say "There is a shortage of great programmers." what they are really saying is, "There is a shortage of programmers who are also great problem solvers." or, "There is a…

Apparently, the last bullet point in this post was either not read by you or not clear enough. I am interested in first hand comparisons in the difficulty various degrees. I am abs…

My degree level areas of knowledge: • BS Computer Science (including 6 masters level courses) • BA Graphic Design Minor – The Minor was officially added the year after I graduated,…

I have had numerous discussions with peers about which area of study was the most difficult/required the most intelligence to achieve a degree-level of knowledge. There are many (u…

It is clear various tools can be effective or ineffective for companies and individuals – this is a very subjective topic. However, since many tech companies, who have subjectively…

I guess my question did not emphasize the "non-standard" enough. I have purchased many domain names that fall in the $10~$20/year price range without any problem. I am most curious…

The process for purchasing domain names (that are not immediately available) is generally a large black box to me. I am curious about both positive and negative personal experience…

To clarify the confusion... The definition of autonomous I am using here is: "having the freedom to act independently" [1] And in this context context I mean the car acting indepen…

I am looking forward to the day Lyft announces, "Autonomous Lyft."

Apple's Time Machine keeps daily (or more frequent within a given day) snap shots of all of your folders.[1] Also, in any native OSX app each "save" works like a git commit, you ca…

I am building a web app right now and am looking forward to when I can start using Stripe to capture payments. Stripe's design (in terms of both usability and visual appeal) is exc…

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Algorithms are not the only thing that make a tech company, but without scheduling, multiparty-route-optimization, or other clever algorithms central to their business, Uber and Ly…

Interesting. It seems like both threats were real – just not clearly realized in the market until recent years. Android is now a huge operating system written largely in java, and …

I also use Mitro. It is free, has strong crypto, allows sharable secrets, works cross-platform. I wish there was an API. I would use it for storing integration test accounts.

Not JavaScript – Prototypal inheritance is interesting and powerful. However, overall JavaScript does not afford good programming practices and does not cleanly expose important re…