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IMO, someone’s tangible value of putting an Ape as their avatar pic on social media might be greater than that of someone being able to use a ship purchased in Star Citizen. It’s a…

This! I prefer 80 characters so I can have two panes of code side by side or a REPL next to my code. It is near impossible to do that on a laptop if the line length is extended to …

100% this. The teams that I have been a part of that have had a lasting impact on me allow for authenticity. Sure, sometimes you get a disparaging remark that can escalate. But, in…

To add to this sentiment, tests also give teams confidence that is needed. It gives engineers confidence when developing new features because the test suite will break if you intro…

Honeypots are the best. It will filter out at least 90% of the spam (or so I have experienced everywhere I have implemented them).

Tools that have worked in the past for me: - Confluence for long lived documents - JIRA for time boxed groupings of work. - Slack for real time comm if anything arises. - "Culture"…

What is soul crushing to you is not soul crushing to someone else. You can certainly find people who are motivated to meet new engineers and talk and spend part of their day doing …

Most times you are correct. In this scenario, however, it seems like he started as an individual contributor and transitioned to management. When that happens, in my experience, co…

Believe it or not, _you_ and you alone can fix this. DELEGATE! Delegate enough to get back SOME of that coding time. Block off 2 hours a day as "Free Time" or "Creative Space" a la…

You can see the older HN article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17310738 Looks like they are moving their office suite of software to React.js.

I know we are talking about this in the digital realm, but this also exists in the property realm too. Imminent Domain is used be governments to acquire land, generally below its a…

It does not have complete feature parity. One of the things missing, that is important for me and the team I am on, is the ability to share screens and allow for remote control in …

Hmm my mistake. The blog post said Differential Equation and a classroom of 300 some students. Not many non-core classes have 300 students in them. I remember my diff eq class (18.…

It is 18.03. He may have just inadvertently flipped the 0 and 3. It is 18.03 now, and was in 2002 :D.

I think it's a grey area, but I am not an accountant. The government considers it to be intagible property in some scenarios and a capital asset in others. For the most part I thin…

There was a podcast(1) about part of your question recently. Essentially, people are playing with "house money" as they have generated net gains from BTC and other coins. Instead o…

http://firstround.com/review/why-firing-brilliant-assholes-i... For me, it's always been just to make sure the person isn't toxic to other employees From some other comments I skim…

There is no one answer here as every family structure is different. Like most other comments here, my 2 (5yo, 22months) children have first dibs on my time while I am not on the cl…

Not to derail the whole premise of this article, but Susan's book looks great! Just bought it and can't wait to start reading it.

I found my mentor through my first paid web development job. The experience is absolutely worth it. That experience happened almost 10 years ago and I still catch up with him every…

I have dealt with the "negative work" conundrum myself and just wanted to give some insight from my point of view on your comment. 1) It isn't always junior level programmers causi…