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Have you done any Android development? Do you have any confidence that Android isn't held together with duct tape and baling wire under the hood? I sure don't.

This seems to be a trend - python, before it erlang-on-metal. Is there a stable higher-level language runtime that runs on bare metal (that I can boot in a VM)? Or, better yet, som…

Heard of STEM?

You might be the smartest person in the room, as you've only stated that you have the least experience.

oDesk has mainly repeat clients who don't get frustrated by the 20+ bots/agencies/morons for every 1 real applicant.

Unless a software developer is tasked with deciding which version control system to use or for some odd reason has to do a deep dive into the philosophy/design of subversion, why o…

Observation: People have been writing this exact letter since day 1 of the GNU project.

For all of our talk of meritocracy, we're still just following multi-millennia-old social programming. Having "Harvard" next to your name in any way gives a force multiplier to any…

Fun fact: Noscript loads and parses all javascript and then just stops it from running against the live DOM. Decreases page render time, sure. Prevents exploits? Don't think so.

It would be nice if they had thought to include natural gas drilling. The fact that they didn't leads me to believe that natural gas production hasn't also declined, and would have…

"you're there to work" is perhaps the most overlooked aspect of jobs in tech. Startups are promoting this sick group dynamic where everyone is expected to become best buddies slash…

If a Startup Founder Offers Stock, Don't Take the Job Fixed.

Fantastic post.

Exactly. Does your business model care if your server is running apache or nginx? No? Then why the hell isn't that automated, baked, and tamper-proofed? We'll know we've arrived wh…

In mavericks, I could hit command-space and start typing, and knew that even though the spotlight box hadn't popped up yet, my text was being captured. Now in yosemite, it's more l…

Because only men look at porn. Crap article.

A good reason to always throw a password on archives.

I like to put my culinary and sock-puppetry skills on my resume under the devops section.

Full stack: Someone who can build one (1) stack which fulfills the business requirements. Database to backend to frontend(s). If you're using rails and Django at the same time, and…

Laggy pop-in scrolling, autoplaying sound with no way to disable, yep this article ain't for me.

s/capitalism/oligarchy

Considering all the "helpful" features in chrome that get in the way of development (copying the url prepends " http://" , even for IPs, for example), this is an important change.

Jokes on you, Lennart just announced 8-bit systemd.

If the ship flies out and comes back immediately, then stops, can it then send information back in time?