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>But hearing it come up -- and like this -- during an interview without solicitation just reeks of a toxic environment. That was my thought. As I was reading this, the voice in my …

I think that there are a lot fewer people using that feature than you'd assume. Even lots of developer coworkers don't know about that ability, even fewer use it. So I can't imagin…

Just to nitpick, the article says aggregates have been in SQL for 3 or 4 decades, but SQL wasn't an ANSI standard until 1986 (28 years ago, almost 3 decades.) I get that a language…

100% this. I spent the first 12 years of my career not writing a single line of production JavaScript or CSS. I did it on the side for my own purposes, but never professionally. Wh…

>I wonder what would happen if students would learn to build simple apps like that in school, instead of Excel? If there is a school that is teaching people Excel, there is a probl…

I think it goes with the territory. In a lot of senses, this guy gave up his personhood and became a corporation. The things we take for granted as individuals he puts before the b…

It's not that it hasn't been tried before. I would guess it's similar to Atwood and his new Discourse platform. It looks nice, and developers & designers get excited about it. But …

I get nervous every time the federal gov't tries to mandate things in school. It always seems like something from either the 50 facts & fallacies of software development and/or the…

Problem for me wasn't so much my manager. He did a good job, as far as he could. It was higher than him. But the last job I left was due to management.

I essentially did this throughout my college career. I don't think it was 5pm, though, more often 7pm. What set me off was getting so frustrated one night doing Calculus at 10pm. I…

My favorite part was the 3 primary & 3 secondary factors they looked at to identify. So if the people doing this can tweak those factors it will help them out.

So you didn't "accidentally" hire people. You did it with a lack of foresight. To me, that's different. Saying you accidentally hired people makes it sound softer than it really is…

So it's not really an accident. They meant to hire those people, they were just bad at forecasting. To me, those are separate issues.

Aren't points 1-8 commonly referred to as "advertising"?

How do you "accidentally" hire more people than you can afford? I could see two people both hiring a janitor without realizing it, but not "accidentally" hiring a lot of developers…

That's a fair point. But I think if you look at most non-startup companies that stay around for 3-4 years they don't typically have the valuations that the startups do in the same …

Interesting thing is that even if it's the end of the line for Microsoft developing new versions of Windows(and I don't think it is), there is still an entire ecosystem that won't …

I did misunderstand. My bad.

I doubt it. In fact, I think of the majority of the people I know if they were to try and download Tweetbot and couldn't, they'll be mad at Tweetbot. Even if Tweetbot states someth…

And a lot of today's startup community was watching Sesame Street

I see this as two problems. 1. Too many options. They even mentioned it "Did I log in with Facebook or Google or Twitter or what." 2. Having both social & native logon. You could a…

Funny you mentioned VB6 days, that was the first thing that came up at work when we saw it. I haven't downloaded it yet, so perhaps I'm missing something. But our thought was that …

Are you tailoring your job application process to each company? If I'm at Amazon see a bunch of Java I might think "Ok, I can find 20 people with these Java skills." Instead of sho…