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Have a look at https://jacquesmattheij.com/due-diligence-survival-guide/ . He covers more details in the second part also.

Where did you get that from? The tools, libraries, frameworks etc. we have now make it a lot easier to build something that would have earlier cost a fortune in custom development.…

Mostly it's because I'm facing a problem I don't know how to solve. And I'm expected to somehow predict when it'll be done. Another scenario is when I'm asked for updates but in re…

More software outsourcing to places where the work can be done cheaper. Now that wfh is becoming common, companies will start to realize that if most of their employees are working…

Maybe the confusion is deliberate.

The US can spy on you; they just don't want anyone else to do so as well.

Great idea. Would you have any links to more things to do to improve the trust-ness of a landing page?

Priceonomics did a story on the stolen bike problem : https://priceonomics.com/post/30393216796/what-happens-to-st...

Would anyone like to give away / sell the projects which they've started but have no time or interest to finish?

I would say don't give up. Use your second probationary period to learn and improve as much as you can. If things don't work out well, at least you would have learnt something usef…

> verify with the investors they claim to have backing from that they've actually invested in the company. I'm curious, how would you go about doing this?

But they've just wasted 1 year. They should have tried to figure out if he has the required curiosity in the first interview itself.

The apple graphing calculator story - http://www.pacifict.com/Story/

You really shouldn't fire someone after just 90 days. Maybe you should try moving the person into a different role/team before firing. Or at least give them some more time. 90 days…

Not if the "handling charges" is big enough. They could end up making more money if they can sell the ticket multiple times.

You could try some of the challenges at hackerrank.com : https://www.hackerrank.com/domains/ai/machine-learning (you may need to sign up) Also there's kaggle - https://www.kaggle.c…

It could be for performance reasons - maybe there's an in-memory cache with only the recent threads kept in it. Commenting on an old discussion would involve loading the thread fro…

Have a look at "Web Operations". It deals with all the components of building and operating a large web application. http://www.amazon.com/Web-Operations-Keeping-Data-Time/dp/14...…

You may want to check out Mike Gunderloys blog[1]. He was also an MS developer for 15 years before he switched to open source technologies. 1. http://afreshcup.com/about-me/

Have a looks at http://www.thoughtworks.com/radar

I want a transparent process where I know in advance what I'm getting into. I'd like to know how much they're willing to pay(the range) and what exactly I would be expected to do -…

I would recommend Martin Fowler's NoSQL Distilled : http://martinfowler.com/books/nosql.html

Have a look at http://www.bravenewgeek.com/dissecting-message-queues/

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