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That's not a good analogy. The problem isn't an intern writing a line of code that takes out the database (although that does sometimes happen). The problem is a failure to underst…

Heck, funding my own competition would be the least of my worries. What's concerning is they have full control over your data, your infrastructure, aspects of your whole business..…

Well, this is the way I saw it as a student: the purpose isn't to provide "the right answer," the purpose was to understand the test, give the answer that they wanted, and use scho…

I'm assuming you mean you try to give people honest feedback, but people object to it because it's too harsh? It's completely possible to honest, assertive and kind at the same tim…

America copied a lot of ideas from England during the industrial revolution. From my cursory understanding of things it seems like copying technology is how you get up to speed, be…

I switched a company's web API with background tasks to a serverless architecture. In some ways it's kind of magical, because it means we just need a few web API boxes and a bunch …

It's fake work until your web application reaches a point where server loads take your web API down, and endpoints frequently take well over 10 seconds to respond. Yes, I worked at…

The earth is in a state of constantly flux, but when food supplies dwindle, the end result is famine, war, bloodshed, chaos and death. The earth will recover from humans, but I don…

Keep in mind if you're the company that can make ads 10% more effective than everyone else, then you're going to be extremely successful. Even if that means going from "horrible" t…

We could also eliminate farm technology and bring back all those farm jobs. 99% of us could work the fields again, and there'd never be a jobs shortage again.

> All that said, I of course don't promote saying only hello and then waiting for a reply before proceeding. That's just silly. Well, that's what the article is arguing against. No…

Someone needs to write a Slack extension (or whatever the plugins are called) that simply replies to "hi" or "hello" with "Hello! How can I help you?" and hides those opening salvo…

This is a writer's blog, not a professional developer. Heck, I'm a professional developer and if someone asked me how they should create their blog, I'd suggest going to Wordpress …

That's the main reason I would write a book: to tell people that I wrote a book. You can literally say, "I wrote the book on that."

Actually, I started to type "I don't know why a company is willing to pay twice as much for an engineer in Silicon Valley than for one in Houston," but as I was typing that I had a…

Or enough people never move there. I recommend every CS graduate move to a city like Austin. Austin is a great city at a reasonable cost-of-living. I don't see why you'd want to st…

Or they just need to move to cities that have room to grow. I'm in Houston and I bought a gorgeous townhouse-style home in my favorite part of town near downtown, and it was in the…

Research low-cost index funds. They're better than managed funds and much, much cheaper. In this day and age, the only person who you can trust managing your money is yourself - an…

I was a sciences undergrad at Stanford and now I've ventured into programming - at a decidedly uncool industry, in a relatively uncool metropolis - but I don't want to go back to S…

> As income inequality has grown dramatically in the nation, the very wealthy are blamed for all manner of social ills. Boo hoo.

Hi all, I'm doing a startup and I feel we need to establish a basis for equity distribution before we get too deep into the project. My partner is hesitant to sign a formal agreeme…