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In addition to the many fine recommendations already on the thread, I enjoyed Winner's Curse and Irrational Exuberance.

Junior developer is someone who was unable to negotiate a stronger position for any reason, such as experience, recent unemployment, expertise in an outside specialty, company is s…

Using the measurement, "how likely are they to be hired" seems like it's precisely the problem. "How likely someone is to be hired" is a totally erratic and unpredictable property …

Disney would.

Maybe I'm missing something, but why isn't the implication going the other direction? In my experience, the problem is that interviewers have no idea how to correctly value a candi…

> There's actually a shortage of data-savvy people who can also write production software, and you would nicely complement a more research-inclined data scientist or analyst -- som…

In the minds of middle management, I think this is precisely correct.

All of the C/C++ experts I know, as well as people who have interviewed me coming from primarily that background, have always been among the most adamant to stress that an applicat…

I can't speak for the other commenters, but my view is that not even Goldman has really any success to show for it. The whole Slang/SecDB thing is a colossal failure even inside of…

Agreed. Desktop apps are generally so much better.

The tool is also extremely messy internally, written in a proprietary language that resembled a very early version of Python and has accrued nearly unthinkable technical debt. Deli…

But the huge difference is that with truly un-live-with-able circumstance, the most important thing you need is help to alleviate the circumstance itself. Changing your response to…

I think this gets at a bigger philosophical question about depression that few seem interested in engaging in. Sometimes depression is a correct, reasonable, and even necessary rea…

My sister's public middle school in Indiana has student book fees, and various fees for using mandatory assigned Chromebooks, some of which are refunded if it's returned in good or…

In some cases it may be reasonable, but generally it's not at all reasonable. As mentioned in another comment, there is no sense in which it's generous to forsake aspects of a proj…

By definition though, we're talking about issues that get a huge steam of +1's, and are unequivocally extremely useful to a wide group of the project's users. When the project main…

I actually experience a lot of push back. Many project maintainers don't want more contributors, and feel like there are already too many cooks in the kitchen and they don't have t…

That's very unrealistic. I may be a casual user of a tool, while the fix requires deep familiarity with internal parts. The age-old answer of "fix it yourself" is silly, unless pro…

I agree. That's why the article is wrong-headed in its presentation. Generally when you begin working on problems where this sort of thing is relevant, you have to make choices to …

Same here. When an issue goes unaddressed for a long time, yet the user base clearly needs it to be addressed, there has to be a mechanism by which the user base can make it annoyi…

I would say it differently: you absolutely should trust big O numbers for data structures and use that as a major guiding principle in terms of how to structure a program ... and y…

This is a mess of an essay and does little to persuade me that allowing domain experts to have free reign to make software messes is in any way a good idea. One of the criticisms a…

The interesting thing in the case of Uber/Lyft/etc. is that the end goal would almost have to be a situation in which on-demand ride sharing applications became nearly the sole mod…

Slight aside -- I am a long-time user of Cython and would love to contribute, but poking around the source code feels daunting -- like there is a huge learning curve to be able to …

I took off all my clothes.