barclay

Agreed. I've found that for me, to have meaningful commit messages, you have to have a meaningful amount of work complete. Otherwise you end up with a bunch of "more work on feature x" messages.

This is counter to a lot of the "commit often" mantra that so many git people have, but it's working better for me.

> if the dating site works

That's a mighty big if. Especially for an adult dating site, where I'd guess the guy/girl ratio would be at least 500:1.

And I was thinking 1% was too generous. My guess would be more like .01% to convert.

No, that sounds about right.

Readyforce, Menlo Park, CA

We're still kind of in stealth mode. Great company, fun team, interesting market, good leadership.

Looking for:

UI/Visual Designer http://jobs.eurekahire.com/rf/requisition/detail/150

Sr. Product Manager http://jobs.eurekahire.com/rf/requisition/detail/157

I'm with you.

Let's discuss architecture of the last app I built in detail, with the how's and why's. Ask me questions on it, rather than just letting me brush through it.

Let's talk about the most challenging bit of code I wrote at the last gig. Get me a terminal and I'll walk you through it. Let's do a "for real" code review--my stuff or yours, either is fine, and get into some meat.

Hell, let's even talk about our feelings.

But these questions in an interview are just not fun. I'm already nervous enough, and getting jostled by missing some stupid trick question that has little relevance just sucks.

Jesus. I had never realized that.

> 6. Go home and once in a while cook food. YES, real food. It will teach you the difference bet following a recipe and creating a meal

While most of the other points we've all heard many times, this one (IMHO) was actually pretty clever. This is something I've been thinking about a lot lately when I'm prepping: the parallels between cooking and writing software (since I do both a lot).

As an developer, it's interesting to look at cooking through the lens of: here's something fairly established you need to build (the dish). You have docs and RFCs (the recipe). You have tools that, while different, could be argued are more or less powerful than your IDE (knives, pans). You can complete the assignment, and get it good enough so all your tests pass (it's edible). You can refactor and tidy things up to make it a little better (seasoning).

Now how do you take it to the next step, from fine to fan-fucking-tastic? Is it the same process as engineering (reading, studying, lots of practice)? Is it just innate?

Anyway. Interesting point. Funny to see someone else is there, too.

While it's an interesting post (and in general I completely agree with the notion of hubris v. humility), I think the author chose a couple of bad examples. TiVo vs. Blackberry is a complete apples to oranges comparison. Forget that one is a "productivity tool", while the other is strictly for entertainment. Or that one is in a rapidly growing market (mobile devices) while the other is fighting in a dying market entrenched with DRM, copyrights and other such bullshit.

Another big piece he's missing: through 1999-2003 blackberry had enterprise sales teams selling into companies driving corporate adoption, vs. TiVo being the redheaded stepchild that none the satellite and cable providers wanted anything to do with. Not to mention they would later ape it's features, or in the case of tivo/directTV fuck the consumer over completely.

> I was using a Scitex imaging workstation before Photoshop 1.0

Oh wow. That takes me back... It's probably been 18 years or so since I've heard that term.

I reckon I'll be wondering around in nostalgia for the rest of the day now. Remembering the good ol' days of my IIci with it's Radius Rocket.

Whoa. I'm surprised by John's rather dickish reply to this in the comments.

He totally could have (should have) taken the high road and recognized the lacking of good typography controls. And pointed out that this was just a tech demo and Adobe's excited to do all it can to improve type on the web.

As others have mentioned, this really only works if you have a simple (and solid) deploy and rollback practice. Most people don't.

Given that, all it takes is one terrible deploy: shit goes way south and you're down for most of the day. Now you have the CEO standing around your desk nervously looking at you trying to re-federate the databases when you to realize a 7PM deploy is not all that bad.

>Deploying a major update when I’m not in work-mode is awkward as well.

I'm sorry, no. I love my family and time, too... But logging in from home for an hour or two in the evening to do a deploy and validation isn't that much to ask, especially considering most of our salaries. If you're that sensitive about it, come in late the next morning.

Given that apple is in a much different place now then it was during the PowerPC days, maybe this isn't such a terrible idea. (And PPC wasn't apple so much as moto/ibm). They're proving it works right now with the A4... so maybe you're right.

That sad, I'd hate to have them go down the sun route, and just get left behind if/once intel gets off their ass.

Certainly interesting idea, but the article is way to heavy on the conjecture, with little to no facts at all.

It's great that the subject feels better--but it seems like a real stretch to me that it's all about the porn. What else are they doing with their new found porn-less time (working out, going for walks, sleeping?), and what made them come to this decision (religion, shame?).

> The admins should have made it clear in no uncertain terms that this post would be a disaster

I dunno. If you look at some of the more technical stuff the MS devs post on channel9 (and some of it being really, really good) you could almost imagine that there could have been an interesting and informative exchange of information here.

I think this is much more likely.

I'm sure he's doing well, but it also sounds like he's a real automotive enthusiast. While $350-500k sounds absurd for a "car", if it is his dream, with how well they've done, and his fees on speaking engagements... that's probably not that far out of reach.

Is it a good investment? In happiness maybe. Some of the best times of my life were taking my car out on the track. I miss it dearly.

After all the shit I've mumbled about him, 37s and rails... that he really wants this car--and appears to know what it is--his stock just went up a bit in my book. Us car guys, we stick together.

-- edit: Just saw someone else posting that it's more like a $1.5m-$3m project. That certainly changes the scale, but I still think the point applies.

While I think it's awesome to have friends in high places, and I wish these guys the best, it reminds me just how miserable it was to work on the FB platform.

Their milquetoast, ever-changing policy that's occasionally enforced and frequent API updates and breakage was maddening at best. IMHO FB makes apple's app store policies seem "not so bad".

I understand that zynga and the lot have made a lot of money, and the level of traffic FB can provide is intoxicating... but I'll be damned if i'd do that again. This tale is a good reminder of why.