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Lonely Mountain Downhill, also Soduko & Wordle

High turnover may indicate problems with culture/management/remuneration or a change in market conditions. It could just be coincidence. Or maybe they have learned great skills and…

This list summarises some of the most important lessons I've learned in life.

There must be a host of legitimate uses for the same data. The obvious ones: 1) Verifiy or correct the date/timestamps on recordings. 2) Geo-locate based on hum signature. Could ap…

I'm often disappointed to find comments veer off track and never return. In rare cases the digressions are more valuable than the original article, but it sure would be great to be…

Thank you - the light just went on for me! Is this what is meant by Domain Specific Languages (DSL's) ?

A good architect doesn't pretend to have a monopoly on ideas or trending technologies. Their job is to make sure that the really good ideas aren't ignored and get adopted more broa…

In the beginning "likes" had value because there was no incentive to lie. Now they are so gamed they've become meaningless. Couple that with the sheer number of "friends" who are l…

That's a great analogy. It will be interesting to see if agile storytelling becomes as popular as agile development, and how both those approaches will have evolved in 10 (or 20) y…

It's hard to answer that question because so much depends on your specific circumstances but I'll try. I'm assuming you're able to do your own programming because $1000 won't get y…

In my experience it's the programmers who can ONLY program that get little respect. The ones that can also understand other problem domains (business/people/processes) tend to get …

Over the years I have gradually come to prefer VB too. I find it slightly easier to read and also easier to explain to noobs. I particularly prefer ... End If Next i End Sub to ...…

This kind of project seldom grabs the headlines and is unlikely to raise more than a stifled yawn in most circles - so they just reformatted some data, right? But imagine all the d…

The only surprising thing about this story is that it made the papers. US immigration officials have always taken a hard line on visitors. I had a very similar experience several y…

I'm surprised just how ruthlessly this was enforced. When Jobs complained to Schmidt, the person who contacted an Apple employee was "terminated within the hour." A Senior Google V…

The website itself is just be the tip of the iceberg - it would need to talk to multiple back-end systems. $18m wouldn't be unreasonable if the project required complex legacy inte…

I worked for a company with a similar policy - no employee could provide a reference, and all requests had to be passed on to HR. However, some of my co-workers were contractors an…

or Apple?