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My straightedge tattoo is on the back of my left hand. Like many, I gave it up later in life. No shame in that, so long as you can avoid assaulting subordinates or killing people w…

My straightedge tattoo is on the back of my left hand. Like many, I gave it up later in life. No shame in that, so long as you can avoid assaulting subordinates or killing people w…

Nice work, Brendan. Glad to see you changed the name. Good luck!

I agree. I'm pretty sure the diaspora team wasn't expecting such a huge response and priced their rewards accordingly. "What is someone donates 1/5th of what we need? Let's send em…

It's an interesting, if severely opinionated, analysis. The author makes a sound argument, but I think he's wrong. The landscape has changed a lot in the two years since Appleseed …

Nice product. Now, stop smoking and go off the Red Bull binge so you can get your thinking cap on for the next step. Good work. I think it'll gain some traction.

I pay for GitHub and AWS. Total cost: under $10/mo

Oh, I dunno. I think you can get more done with a small group of super-smart guys the you could with a big group of mediocre ones (isn't that already an axiom?) I think the client …

15 years ago, my CS202 professor was asked: Q: "Dr. Anasastio, can you recommend a different editor from emacs? It's so hard to work with. Can we use pico or jot?" A: "No. Emacs is…

I found this list a little contrived. These tools are not ALL essential, are they? No mention of source control, either. Yikes.

I used to be an Enterprise architect for a Fortune 500 company. We did many of the things you are asking about. Here are my answers: 1. Yes, you can. However, there will be tradeof…

The slant of this article seems to be mostly steering people away from outsourcing. I understand the motivation, but I disagree in some cases. Outsourcing is always a touchy topic …

So I have an idea that I could develop myself but I do IT consulting fulltime. I'm not sure how Ycombinator views it, but I think you should get some skin in the game. I know it ca…

Randy's mother was my English teacher in High School. Small world. Bummer to lose a brilliant professor, but he certainly has left his mark on the world.

When I see ads that advertise for RockStar Developers(!!!!!) I think about companies that describe themselves as "cool". If you have to say you're cool....you're probably not.

Nice idea. Nice presentation. Awhile back, YC listed some ideas they wanted to fund. Simplified browsing was one of them. Seems like your technology could be applicable to simplify…

The whiteboard and pseudocode questions work for me, but personally I like to put a laptop in front of them with an IDE and a coding problem. I allow outside help (google, etc) bec…

Really useful. Thank you. I echo the sentiment that most Linux tip sites offer only rudimentary tips aimed at beginners. These are excellent.

Touchy topics, to be sure. I think they all can and should be asked. Whether each is really worth of much debate is a different question. Most are worth debating, some aren't: depe…

It should not be too hard to find prior art on this idea and invalidate the patent. But don't go it alone. And I agree: stop talking in public about it right away.

I always liked this implementation: http://chneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2005/05/lazy-streams-fo...

I am most creative when I sleep. I wake up with ideas. But I'm not productive in the morning. If I can get to the office before it gets too busy or distracting, I find I can jell a…

This is a particularly interesting topic for Agile teams. Letting a team self-organize sometimes leads to a team wanting to "self-organize someone off the team". I've had my Scrum …