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Have you done any Android development? Do you have any confidence that Android isn't held together with duct tape and baling wire under the hood? I sure don't.

This seems to be a trend - python, before it erlang-on-metal. Is there a stable higher-level language runtime that runs on bare metal (that I can boot in a VM)? Or, better yet, something that compiles arbitrary LLVM code into .ISOs for deployment?

Heard of STEM?

You might be the smartest person in the room, as you've only stated that you have the least experience.

oDesk has mainly repeat clients who don't get frustrated by the 20+ bots/agencies/morons for every 1 real applicant.

Unless a software developer is tasked with deciding which version control system to use or for some odd reason has to do a deep dive into the philosophy/design of subversion, why on earth would they bother to know this? You might as well ask if they prefer Cherry MX Blue or Brown. I don't know SVN but if it's anything like Git, there are 100 ways to use it, exactly 5 of which are useful to 90% of developers on any given day.

Observation: People have been writing this exact letter since day 1 of the GNU project.

For all of our talk of meritocracy, we're still just following multi-millennia-old social programming. Having "Harvard" next to your name in any way gives a force multiplier to anything you want to do in life.

Fun fact: Noscript loads and parses all javascript and then just stops it from running against the live DOM. Decreases page render time, sure. Prevents exploits? Don't think so.

It would be nice if they had thought to include natural gas drilling. The fact that they didn't leads me to believe that natural gas production hasn't also declined, and would have made their little timeline rather boring.

"you're there to work" is perhaps the most overlooked aspect of jobs in tech. Startups are promoting this sick group dynamic where everyone is expected to become best buddies slash drinking acquaintances slash family with their coworkers, to try to hang on to talent just a little longer.

If a Startup Founder Offers Stock, Don't Take the Job

Fixed.

Fantastic post.

Exactly. Does your business model care if your server is running apache or nginx? No? Then why the hell isn't that automated, baked, and tamper-proofed? We'll know we've arrived when the only feasible attack is sneaking malicious code into a git repo and hoping no one notices.

In mavericks, I could hit command-space and start typing, and knew that even though the spotlight box hadn't popped up yet, my text was being captured. Now in yosemite, it's more like... hit command-space, start typing "chrome", wind up with a box 1.5 seconds later filled in with "ome". This is only a problem on my i5 mac mini. My macbook pro (same year - late 2012) is just barely fast enough to pop open the window in time to capture my text input. But that just shows that their UI stack is too deep to provide the kind of snappy user interactions they are shooting for.

Because only men look at porn. Crap article.

A good reason to always throw a password on archives.

I like to put my culinary and sock-puppetry skills on my resume under the devops section.

Full stack: Someone who can build one (1) stack which fulfills the business requirements. Database to backend to frontend(s). If you're using rails and Django at the same time, and your full stack engineers have to take on an unnecessary cognitive load, that's your problem.

Laggy pop-in scrolling, autoplaying sound with no way to disable, yep this article ain't for me.

s/capitalism/oligarchy

Considering all the "helpful" features in chrome that get in the way of development (copying the url prepends "http://", even for IPs, for example), this is an important change.

Jokes on you, Lennart just announced 8-bit systemd.

If the ship flies out and comes back immediately, then stops, can it then send information back in time?

Yep. Long story short, if I could send information instantaneously, thanks to relativity, if we're moving away at a fast enough speed, you could send me a message and I could reply to you before you sent it. ;)

I'm glad the tone police are here to make irrelevant arguments about valid points.

Maybe they won'the be actively hostile to DIY hacking like Google is with chromecast.

It's really sad how amateur most interviewers are. I learn a lot more from them than they do from me. I actually take advantage of the few minutes they set aside for me to ask questions to poke a bit and try to get them to go off-script. Companies: For god's sake, choose interviewers that don't need a teleprompter to conduct an interview. It's making you look bad.

That's great if you're a game AI programmer (an incredibly small group) or you're creating Yet Another Dependency Loader (hey, I guess <language that becomes super popular next year> will only have 100 frameworks to manage modules, you'd better create your own as well).

You know what I really wish? Programmers would spend 1/100th of that algorithm studying on learning to write readable, maintainable code.

If it were altruism I'd applaud any effort. But their alailable lectures seem to be a bid to bring more students in to full enrollment. Poor video quality, as long as the awesomeness of the course itself can be seen, doesn't work against this goal.