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Re:Behavioral Immune System
on Saturday May 02, 2020 @11:18AM (#23052222)
I wonder if this explains why people forced to work in open plan offfices become less sociable? It’s well documented how illnesses travel in open plans.
Hello, Production
How Do I Convert Story Points to Hours?
The Harsh Light of Remote Work
The private office is dead, long live the private office
The Know-not-all Developer
Re:Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself
on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @02:42PM (#16486074)
Great point. Developers are usually very smart folks, and we like to believe that we know everything. There's no substitute for context.
Re:How and why we teach non-engineers to use GitHub at Thread
on Thursday January 04, 2018 @01:56PM (#16072988)
What the heck are "data files"?
Don't Trap Your Clients in the Bikeshed
Re:Ask HN: One thing you wish would happen in the next 10 years?
on Thursday August 17, 2017 @11:27AM (#15037591)
50% of office jobs are performed > 50% of the time from the worker's home (or remote location of their choice).
Job Ad Red Flags: Technical Minutiae
Job Ad Red Flags: “Passion”
The Push Train
The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Developer Interviews
Different Strokes for (Remote) Folks
Re:Ask HN: What sort of side-projects are useful for getting jobs?
on Monday January 23, 2017 @03:04PM (#13465444)
Teach yourself test automation (Selenium, etc.). Shockingly few QAs know even the basics of scripting/programming.
Be the Automator
A Healthy Disdain for Technology
Brazen head
Re:Employee #1: Amazon
on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @01:08PM (#12437483)
I was hoping Shel would talk about using Lisp in the early days of Amazon.
https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/tour-de-babel#TOC-...
Is Your Codebase a Hotel Room or a Home?
Who Designed the Hamburger Icon? (2014)
Re:Twilio's Seed Pitch
on Monday June 27, 2016 @12:48PM (#11987434)
> I would be impressed with a tool to quickly design a web application in the same way Visual Basic did 25 years ago instead of talking about Bootstrap, Foundation, AngularJS, React, etc.
It's called ASP.NET Web Forms. Version 1 was released in 2002. Demos of it back then were quite impressive.