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Probably true too, but: 1) fat takes much longer to digest 2) refined sugar/wheat is like a drug. Basically you get withdrawal symptoms that force you to eat more sugar soon. I bet…

I'd say division of labor/"departments" are a must-have no matter where you are based. Sometimes LAZY managers/owners put employee level developers together with customers and make…

Exactly. I have interviewed many candidates and later fired several too. Some people who look good on paper are so desperate that they lie about everything! In fact, I had to fire …

I had a similar problem. * Figure out what do you want achieve in the long run (eg individual freedom, another interesting idea that requires much more capital, fly to space, save …

Mac + Chrome = crash. Memory usage keeps growing. No idea.

Yes! I hired 2 programmers more than a year ago. One of them was a guy with a lot of experience and another was a girl with only basic programming knowledge (university, first year…

xcode - unstable piece of sh*t. Even after so many years it still tends to crash randomly...

We avoided middlemen/agencies. Searched for actual teams relatively near us (via google/recommendations). I would recommend companies/teams in Baltic states if you're from US/EU (g…

Depends. If it is your product/startup then be careful: We had a split between founders (business vs technical) about outsourcing vs hiring more people, but I finally gave up. So w…

DRM is mostly marketing BS (target -> content providers). For example it takes less than 10 seconds to remove the latest Adobe DRM from an epub file once everything is set up (max …

My personality :) I just left/sold my own company that I started over 3 years ago. Then people asked why? I said "opportunity cost". I just couldn't explain it in any other way. Wa…

Timetracking (external customers): toggl.com Project management: pivotaltracker.com

What an arse!

Because we're so superficial and envy "success theatre". People around you don't really care about your profitability/business model. They just assume that you have figured everyth…

Yes :) Still waiting for a proper execSync ( https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/1167 ). Without it small build/utility scripts turn into macaroni cheese unless you resort back t…

Agreed! I worked for a large Japanese hardware company many years ago. They had an entire floor full of programmers (YES, not kidding!!!) who were working on a new software product…