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Author here. That's a great use case where a quantifiable improvement would lend itself to a business case as an approximate ROI calculation could be made. I will have to think of …

As someone who's worked as a Software Developer in Toronto for the past 13+ years, I totally disagree with this assessment. First off, very few very early stage startups expect you…

Nulogy.

We also have/use: - TDD - pair programming - git flow - a 2-week release cycle - four dev teams

I'm talking about all financial institutions being non-profits. Financial institutions would not have a responsibility to shareholders to show a return on investment. Instead they …

I'm not asking how to go about putting in place such a restriction. Just imagine that you could. Wouldn't that solve a bunch of issues, i.e. fraud, asset bubbles, consumer exploita…

"The recovery operations were challenging," Musk told reporters from Washington, D.C.. The seas were heavy, he said, so the recovery team suspects the stage was destroyed. They wer…

Find a company that: 1. Isn't a "startup" anymore (by Steven Blank's definition of the term). 2. That's been founded by engineers (you might a better cultural fit). 3. That still h…

> The cure seems worse than the disease, in my opinion. Totally agree with you on that. Given that the idea of usernames (originally called handles) predates the internet ( http://…

Just because you find a passion, doesn't mean you have to spend money on it. There are an insane amount of free learning resources online (in tech/dev, which I'm assuming what your…

Is there ever a reason / use case in JS to NOT use the strict comparison operators (=== and !==)? Browser support? Performance? Logic tricks?

Seems to be corroborated in tech by some nice examples: Jimmy Wales: founded Wikipedia at 35 and Wikia at 38; Marc Benioff: started Salesforce at 35; Mark Pincus: started Zynga at …

That's a good bit of info to know, thanks for sharing. I daresay it won't be the last bizarre spam rule that gmail implements.

#firstworldproblems (I couldn't find the post on reddit, and couldn't resist)

For the purpose of constructing a financial model, I've been asked a few times (over the course of years) to provide an estimate for the variable costs involved in hosting, or more…

It seems a lot of mid-sized companies like to call themselves "startups" because of the hip factor. Even though they fail to fit into the definition. Incidentally, here's a good Qu…

Congrats! Though I'm curious to know what you mean by "real" startup. What's a fake one? One of the most important questions to ask is how they're funded. Most startups fail, and f…