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I think it was just out of curiosity; I had the exact same question. Also, "Why is it free?" is another way of asking "What's the catch?". It's important to understand this before …

It's the HTML5 tag.

Will do, thank you for the offer jbk. Again, great work. I can't begin to imagine how painful it must've been to get everything relicensed! Sometimes it's such "non-technical" work…

You are right, of course. "commercial" was the wrong terminology; I meant proprietary, closed-source products as you said. However, whatever your views on closed source products, t…

Most commercial work these days leverage several open source libraries. And once a library becomes part of your core product, it is in your interest to support further development …

It looks like you're trying to do the right thing here, even though there is no boss or peer who understands exactly what you're doing and can appreciate that fact. Kudos for that …

I think Yishan Wong's thoughts on this really hits the mark: http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/engineering-management-tools-a... It is incredibly important to get your tools right so y…

Great comment. We're in the enterprise space and we also see many competitors do the tech blog rounds and then fall off the face of the earth after a few months. To add to your mor…

Not a big fan of the article either, but I think there is some benefit to at least trying to develop some skills outside of your core skill set. This is not necessarily to get good…

Yeah for the closest possible comparison in your scenario, you want to do a 3 year reserved with heavy utilization. When you reserve an instance, you are committing to a higher upf…

Good work. Small typo on your frontpage that you may want to fix: "webiste".

Exactly. This was an attack on the new "Uber X" service which will more directly compete with regular cabs. (Frankly the only reason I even take cabs anymore is the cost of the reg…

I believe Uber simply sub-contracts to independent sedan drivers who have already jumped through all the necessary governmental hoops - it's not a dispatching system for gypsy cabs…

Second this. Nothing more awkward than giving notice and then not finding a job you're excited to move to. Unless your intent is to take a few months off anyway, in which case give…

In fact, in this scenario he can be completely honest and say that that would not be a good idea because, well, he's the main engineer there and they would not be happy about him l…

Second this. Right after school I passed on a higher-paying job to work at a startup. It didn't do well, but I learned a whole lot about what is involved in running a startup corre…

I think it could be argued though that Jobs probably had a good idea of what is feasible with current technology, and this allowed him to push his team to deliver something that is…

Not sure why you're getting attacked. I think the advantage is a combination of nicer design and better PR ("brought to you by the fathers of the iPod", etc). A very Apple-like app…

Great work. Love the humor too :) I second the other comments about choosing a different background - took me a while to notice the parallax effect...

Well, we have no specific projects for which we're waiting for interns. We'd like to get some smart interns for a while and see what you can do in whatever interests you, and see i…

San Jose, CA. Intern / Full-time. H1B ok. RetailNEXT ( http://bviretailnext.com ) We are google analytics for the real-world. We use a combination of machine vision (OpenCV + our o…

These are some great tips. One thing to be aware of is that there will be a natural tension between your and the dev team, as devs tend to be a proud bunch and your job is to point…

Nicely captures my issues with tech recruiters. The other big disconnect is that since tech is in so much flux, you want to hire smart generalists who can pick up new technologies …

Great idea - hope you get to meet some great startups when you're out here! (Would invite you over but we're an enterprise software company - AS/Java/Python/C++)

True. I think xxbondsxx was just wondering about the wisdom of linking to his personal website from their homepage. I'm a developer myself, and I give a lot of importance to what m…