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    Comment #6791785

    One of the things that I've learned in recent years closely relates to several of those points: There is no shame in being wrong, it is much more important to quickly adapt to new …

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    Comment #6791100

    That's an interesting idea. Did the original author of the work walk the junior team member through what was going on, or did they just point them at it and have them check through…

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    Comment #6791023

    We're currently transitioning away from TFS and I think locking down changes to pull requests (and potentially blocking most devs' access to commit to master) will help quite a bit…

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    Comment #6790094

    Off hand I can think of a few reasons for using the mapping object as they did in angular-translate: - It may make sense to translate the same English sentence to something slightl…

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    Ask HN: How do you teach/enforce programming best practices?

    Since finding a work environment where you work solely with top-level talent is exceedingly rare (especially outside of tech-hub areas), it's important to figure out how to maximiz…

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    Comment #2417652

    I'm in Louisville and we have had a hell of a time trying to hire quality developers. The pool of quality talent here is much smaller than the demand.

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    Comment #2202391

    Office design should reflect what the employees in the office are trying to accomplish. As a developer, all of that crazy stuff in Zappos' office would be a huge distraction to me.…

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    Comment #1961016

    With services like Rdio, Netflix, and Steam it's actually easier for me to get what I want legally now. Lots of people don't pirate because of the cost, it just used to be the easi…

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    Comment #908880

    Clickable Link: http://www.scribblejot.com

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    Tell HN: Check out my new note taking app, ScribbleJot

    http://www.scribblejot.com I've been playing around with Google App Engine for a few weeks and this is the result. My goal was to design a really simple app for quickly jotting dow…

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    Comment #681278

    I greatly over-simplified the algorithm in my initial post, but there are advantages to a straight hash of the password. Even if you can intercept the person's hash and login to th…

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    Comment #681006

    I haven't verified that Digg does this, but most big sites that do logins over http do some sort of hashing on the client side so that the actual password isn't sent plaintext. As …

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    Comment #595963

    I've been using PHP at work and on personal projects for years. It has a very low "barrier for entry", which is both good and bad. It's easy/cheap to hire entry level programmers t…