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This isn't purely a resource allocation problem. There are real people finding themselves homeless or in bad living conditions because of the explosion in rents in Dublin. Families…

Concentration indicators: Wearing headphones Working away from normal desk Interruptions still happen, of course. When one does, we suggest letting the person know upfront that you…

There is a subtle irony in your comment. I think it is interesting to tease out because much of the arguments on diversity come from one's own perspective. So, if you'll indulge me…

There is a great clourflare article [1] that has talked about this before when they first suggested LV certs. > The seemingly good news is that globally, SHA-2 is supported by at l…

I'm 3/4 of the way through this video. I'm fascinated. I completely recommend it. Thanks for sharing.

My team added something four weeks ago that might be an idea to try - we're still trailing it ourselves. It started accidentally and became a tradition on our team though so your m…

I completely agree that how can you get blocked waiting for a code review? Some concurrency is wonderful for avoiding being blocked. In work I currently have 3 pull requests open a…

If you don't have that much time to write tests I'd recommend integration tests. Then at least you have some tests. Treat integration tests as smoke tests. If there is smoke then y…

Might as well keep all the bug reports in the same thread. I noticed one more thing on the job posting text: the word-breaking is a little off. Here's a image with one example: htt…

Have you seen the Acceptable Advertising manifesto [1]? Sites like reddit and stack exchange have signed up. Essentially AdblockPlus one of the big two adblocking plugins has this …

I know this probably sounds counter-intuitive but the company that provided the report mentioned twice in the article also have a blog post about how adblock users click more ads t…

Even calling yourselves the Onion for Startup News is hilarious. The whole 'we're like uber but for ... ' has become meaningless. The pieces on your tumblr so far have been pretty …

Does the US not have regulations about UAVs automatically firing of weaponry? Don't all current UAVs have human operators. The so-called "man in the loop". I'm having trouble findi…

This is a very intriguing move for Intercom. They've gone from offering products that are designed to solely work inside your SaaS product to customer acquisition. A very interesti…

> "Amazon cut off service to Wikileaks, claiming that whistleblowing violates its terms of service. It had no need to go to court to prove this, because if you rent a server from A…

Hey thanks for the long response. I totally get the premise of peppering I think my problem is with this sentiment "A properly implemented, simple pepper can only help password sec…

Is there any significant evidence that peppering passwords helps? I've seen arguments for and against peppering out on the big bad internet. Everyone has opinions but there are few…

I'm also an apiary.io user. I must agree there is something lacking in the hosted API docs space. What I find most lacking from apiary.io is features. They have such a limited way …

Yeah I agree the hyperbolic sentences are over the top. The only way for anyone to reliably get 100% uptime is to use two or three cloud providers or their own dedicated boxes some…