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So glad someone brought up this book. It a good read and full of sound advice.

Thanks for sparking this discussion! I'm a senior dev, but still relatively early in my career (~8 years). I've been thinking about your exact situation a lot lately as I have inte…

I'm considering GitLab for use at work. How does it stack up against Atlassian Stash? ( https://www.atlassian.com/software/stash/overview )

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"it would be tricky to get all the rules of chess into a JS file" Check out chess.js, https://github.com/jhlywa/chess.js , it does a pretty excellent job. The combination of chessb…

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."

I highly recommend "Functional JavaScript" by Michael Fogus (creator of Lemonad), http://www.amazon.com/Functional-JavaScript-Introducing-Prog...

I wouldn't test 50+ onclick functions. I'd used event delegation to assign the click handler to the appropriate parent element. I'm not experienced with Angular, but the last time …

I tried it, but I didn't see "add telephone" in the hangout window. I also had to use my gmail address to start a hangout with myself.

I agree that animating the icons just for the sake of animation isn't useful. However, the precipitation rate of the rain and snow animations could change in response to the foreca…

Is "Breaker" in the title a Dark Tower reference?

I for one welcome our new supercomputer overlords.

It cracks me up every time I see a Microsoft+Linux headline. Are most Azure users running Linux rather than Windows servers?

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This point really stuck with me: "Fourth, good intentions; best practices; professionalism; engineering – the seductions of process. You are chasing the same gold stars you got whe…

Coincidentally, I watched "Jiro Dreams of Sushi" this evening, and I'm pleasantly surprised to see it on the front page of HN. I was absolutely fascinated by Jiro, and I couldn't s…

The creator of this remake gave a talk on it at the houston.js meetup this week. I was thoroughly impressed with how much effort and thought he's put into this project. He said tha…

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Excellent point.

Ditto. I feel the same way about HN. I love the submissions and find it all fascinating, but sometimes I just need to take a break from HN otherwise I get too down on myself. You h…

Wow HN readers, you're awesome! I didn't expect such a wealth of information when I posted this an hour ago. Keep it coming!

I'm a developer and writing code comes naturally to me. However, I feel that user interface design is a weak area for me and I want to improve. All my UI development is web based, …

Comment 4 on the bug report cracked me up: "Obviously, google doesn't believe in deleting data."

I'm sure you didn't intend to insult autistic people with that comment, but autism != stupidity. Just wanted to point that as my sister is autistic.