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I initially read that as Fog Creek the company was soon to be going out of business.

I downloaded the RTM through Dreamspark, because Dreamspark students get a free Windows Store account (I have some asp.net and WP7 apps I wanted to port over to Win 8). Turns out, …

My impression of Academia was meh, since I think the last thing the world needs is yet another social networking startup. We shall see I guess.

"I don't view the low proportion of women in tech as a serious problem (I think it's determined by the typical obsessions of twelve-year-olds)." Which also has to do with sexism an…

"However some other roles in IT might be better for women to start, like BA and QA and project management where frankly they excel." Yeah, that's not itself sexist or condescending…

Here's an example from my own experience: There's a significant number of trans women who work in tech. And almost all of them started transitioning as adults, in their 20s and 30s…

I agree totally with what you say. She really doesn't have the experience in age or diversity of tech career fields to base her opinion. Women are underrepresented in tech, and tha…

Life isn't a perpetual data structures class.

Yeah, but they are really important to know for interviews. Which of course may or may not have anything to do with the actual life of a developer, but that's life.

Why is the software development interview so radically different from the kinds of conditions a developer actually works under? I mean, I can't imagine someone on the job strugglin…

I remember reading a thread someplace (I think here or at reddit) that criticized the traditional software developer interview process. One person made the suggestion that the reas…

Yeah, I'm in the same boat, and I can't stand startups that advertise for unpaid internships (which is what this would be). My guess is that they are either totally unaware, or del…

My 4th gen iTouch with 256MB RAM simply runs too buggy and slow to enjoy iOS 5

The moral of the story is to simply not update older Apple devices. My brand new 4th gen iTouch was slow and buggy a year ago running iOS 5 right out of the box-I don't see why peo…

If by healthcare do you mean all employees who work in hospitals (including many low paying positions), or more prestigious, higher paying positions like RNs, MDs, etc? And what ab…

I agree totally with everything you said, I'd just add that I think companies are outsourcing the training of new employees, often, to college internships. Which is great if you ar…

Everyone is a beginner at some point.

Austin is hipster central-its where all the young RoR and JS devs go to do startups during SXSW. Don't know what that has to do with transit, and I'm pretty sure Seattle has more t…

Part of the problem is that affluent tech workers want to have their cake and eat it too-everyone wants to live in cool, trendy neighborhoods in SF, and commute to their fancy jobs…

Um, that was a sorta counterfactual post-I'm very familiar with that website, and I'm pretty sure it was merely a hypothetical, and that Clem and most people there prefer Caltrain.…

But isn't this the way it is in tech? No one cares if you have a solid grasp of the fundamentals that rarely (if ever) change. Its all about knowing the trendy platform/language du…