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That is the room where all of the eng team worked, but certainly not how it looked on a normal day. If you look, you can spot three clusters of 4 desks around the edges of the room…

Sometime around 8-10 years ago, requiring company approval for secondary sales started becoming a popular restriction to put into ISO grants (prior to that, it was just right of fi…

Given I had a job while interviewing, I was driving it as fast as I was comfortable. But the part that was important to me as a candidate is that I was getting feedback within 1 bu…

I previously worked at Stripe. Mark's post mirrors my experience internally as a hiring manager, and as a candidate. But as you said, at scale things get harder; I'm sure the exper…

My last 2 jobs have been working on developer productivity for 100+ developer organizations. One is a monorepo, one is not. Neither really seems to result in less work, or a better…

I’m happy my stuff didn’t require multiple pages :)

I was chatting with one of the developers on this project this morning and seeing how we could integrate it into one of our projects. He mentioned that a simple js bundle version i…

If you have a car, or don't mind jumping on Caltrain for the ride down, you can go to Mountain View to the Computer History Museum: http://www.computerhistory.org/

So interesting that this comes up today. We were discussing this yesterday in relation to an upcoming project where we want to maintain some amount of data for visitors to a websit…

A couple years ago at a company hackathon, I took this approach, and then just baked these same tools into the app directly. Django middleware to turn on/off and collect & store th…

First off. You can learn on anything, so get whatever guitar you feel most comfortable playing (comfortable playing is the utmost requirement here). You absolutely have to go to gu…

I was a developer at digg from 2007-2010, and I can say his statement is just flat out wrong. Digg did hire great PHP programmers, but that was because they were great programmers,…

Owen, I think your memory is a little fuzzy on this. If you recall, we overlapped for a few months in 2007 before you left, and the "lots of women" you describe just weren't there.…

If I had to guess, it just flew under the radar enough to not be noticed. I'd bet they probably will have a C&D soon (if not already). disclaimer: I used to work for Digg

This article feels very hastily thrown together. No mention of APC and they didn't even bothering to discuss profilers beyond a link (which doesn't even return xhprof on the first …

Check out the JGI, their office is in Walnut Creek (you'd have to commute a bit, but it's exactly what you're looking for I'd assume) http://www.jgi.doe.gov/whoweare/employment.php…

I just saw the 120"x30" print rolled out in front of my office a couple days ago. I think the biggest challenge is figuring out a way to mount a rolled print that big without stabb…

Netflix (who also survived the outage) wrote a blogpost last year in which they talked about a system they call "Chaos Monkey" which does this exact thing. http://techblog.netflix.…

This is correct, BART stops in Millbrae. The San Francisco Caltrain stops are at 22nd (in potrero hill) and 4th and King (SOMA). If you don't live in either of those neighborhoods,…

I just fired it up on a couple devices, and it's not very intuitive. It's a great idea, they just need some UX help now.

| What is a slow query log? It's basically a log kept of queries that are running slower than a set threshold. Read through this for the details to set it up and access it: http://…

Looks like you probably can. http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/blog/2009/07/30/setting-up-me...

I did a very similar hack for local gyms, but I keep it granular down to the individual checkin so I can do rollups on each hour over the week.