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Although there is some solid advice and insight in here, there's also a lot of really questionable stuff. Following a lot of this advice, particularly around self-promotion and nav…

Yes...my apologies, should have been clearer about this.

This is a discussion that's come up frequently with my peers. To HN's software engineers, I'm wondering if you consider yourselves to be: -a generalist / full stack engineer, or...…

Good catch. I accidentally JavaScript. It's been fixed. Thanks!

I know...but there's actually a real gem hidden in there! The whole agile estimation thing is something that seems to trip people up all the time. If you were to blow this out into…

I've gone through and removed some of the bristly "flavour" language. If you want to scan through it again and look for more offenders I'd be greatly appreciative.

I hear you completely. But understand that my intent here was not to write idiomatic code, it was to write code that an outsider to JavaScript would understand. I worry that the {}…

I'm not disagreeing with you in any way, shape or form. JavaScript is an AWESOME language for both productivity and results. But I think we're doing ourselves a disservice if we as…

"This is totally stupid and insane and only idiots will do it." I hear your point, but this kind of language is no way to get it across.

As a UX guy, the prevalence of the Pinterest layout has made me cringe a bit. But I think it definitely has a place, given a few caveats: 1) As others have said, if your site's pur…

Most important thing is to expand your connections. You can only rely on appearing in search so much. Bear in mind that whenever you do something to LinkedIn, it gets blasted out t…

I think if your interview style is very Q&A oriented, or if you are burying candidates under coding challenges, you are definitely in need of some interview training. Sadly, a lot …

I'm a HUGE fan of LinkedIn. You get what you put into it, though. For me, LinkedIn is my online resume - even moreso than GitHub, because the nature of my work prevents me from con…

I understand where the article is coming from, but I don't agree with this as a blanket statement. There are way too many counterexamples of big companies doing incredible things.

It is kind of funny how responsive design has become perceived as a silver bullet for web design. There are still situations where a traditional m.domain.com approach is better. Re…

I love JavaScript, but there's no denying that large aspects of the language are somewhat ill-conceived. Crockford himself says this. Once you know which pitfalls to avoid it's pos…

I did not put that there because it was the best syntax. :) I put it there because I felt it was most likely to be understood by someone new to the language. I assume you're implyi…

I tried not to get too deep into the explanations because I really, really wanted to keep this to a short list that could be scanned and grokked. Truth be told, if someone wants an…

I really didn't want to write that. Ignorance is never really a good solution. :) But from my experience, someone who is coming into JS for the first time is probably not setting u…

My apologies if I came across this way. The intent was not to whine about var or function declaration, but rather to provide clear direction about a standardized "okay" way of doin…

My only worry is how long it'll take for ES6 to get adopted. It's one thing to write a spec and implement it into the compiler yourself...it's another thing to write a spec and wai…

Could not agree more. There's tons of value in using a standard, even if that standard is getting a bit long in the tooth.

Oh, and one more thing. If you see anything in there that's flat-out WRONG - not just a preference or stylistic choice, but actually WRONG - by all means, shoot me a pull request! …

Wow, glad to see this is stirring up a lot of discussion. Thanks for all your contributions guys. There are a ton of comments down below with a ton of criticisms and suggestions. I…