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I hate to call myself out, but I envy most of you. It sounds as if many here get the opportunity to work on interesting problems from end to end. As such, first principles matter, and approaching something from scratch makes sense. I however have been stuck in a segment of the market that doesn't appreciate the right solution, but rather just wants a solution as fast as possible. To be clear, I'm talking about a more consumer audience. My clients expect things done quick, and quick means leveraging cms, ecommerce platforms (magento, woo commerce, etc.). To be frank I find such work unsatisfying, and often need to hack things together to meet the requirements set forth within the constraints of the budgets I'm working with. I'd love to be able to work in an environment where doing things right mattered, but the plain fact is the deliverables aren't measurable based on quality, but expedition.

While I'm on a soap box, I'd like to point out to those in the positions where they're work is evaluated by professionals and peers how lucky they are. I'd kill for a job/client where my code is evaluated by other developers. This community sometimes forgets they are the 1% of the development world. Those who work for the googles, facebooks, and visionary startups with leaders who came from the same cloth. The rest majority of us are laboring away under management that have never produced a lick of code, or even design, for that matter.

I guess the Tl;DR is: appreciate the fact that you even get to consider the finer points, and pray for the rest of us.

No one said demand.

Finally, a legitimate reason for IE 6 to exist.

Great, another reason I wish I had gone to MIT.

True, if we get down to the nitty gritty, its not as simple as I portrayed. My intent was to say, bring an idea for a solution, don't just bring a problem. If I had two employees who came to me with the same problem, and one came prepared with a recommended solution and the other one didn't, it would be clear to me who the more valuable employee is.

I disagree. Ive seen too often the person who is willing to say X,Y,Z is wrong, but cant offer a solution to solve X,Y,Z. Its the solution that matters. Bringing your CEO or any higher-up a problem without a solution is just adding to the noise that busy person already has to deal with. The whole purpose of an employee is to take an existing or new problem off of the CEOs plate.

Im going to offer this info without comment: The first thing I check for when reading a blog article like this is Ctrl+ f " I ". The word "I" was stated 42 times in this post. Compare this to someone like Paul Graham's blog, who averages around 5-10 "I's" per article.

Good question, how was Yahoo's culture between 2010-2012?

The words I dread the most are, "it needs more wow factor". I always ask, "great, can yoh show me what that looks like?"

I always thought the name was influenced by Nikolai Gogol.

>"..in the same way the FDA verifies safety and efficacy of pharmaceuticals.."

There is some merit to what you say, but I'd not use the FDA as a model. To me that sounds like a recipe for disaster, imagine the NSA auditing our software with FDA like cronyism and inefficiency? Green-light passes to be auctioned off to the highest bidder, and otherwise legitimate products will be hampered by woe-some delays. "Sorry, cant launch your new update until the NSA approves it."

Not a lawyer, but..As far as using Origami for prototyping? No, I don't think there is any issue. Using and shipping Origami framework along with your own product, yes. Im pretty sure they are only saying "If you implement Origami into your own framework, you must provide attribution".

As one who lives in Silicon Valley, almost everything seems reasonably affordable by comparison (currently paying $1300 for tiny one bedroom apartment built in the 70s).

EDIT: I should add that rate is the absolute lowest I was able to find and not be in East Side San Jose (for those in the neighborhood who were likely about to say, "damn, only $1300?").

Hey, Im happy with it regardless, and super stoked to see Native Windows 64-bit build support.

Agreed, I'm in love with Inkscape's support for SVG. Like some of the other posters here, I am fed up with Adobe and it's bloated software. In Adobe's defense, this is likely due to all of the backwards compatibility they need to do.

However, when it comes to using SVGs on the web, Inkscape is clearly the king. Illustrator has a bunch of nice and fancy filters and such, but you try exporting as an SVG for web and you will find a great deal of your design has been lost due to non-svg-compatabile "frills" Illustrator adds.

The main issue with JS and SEO is that most JS Frameworks we are talking about are used to create SPAs (Single Page Applications). Usability-wise, these are great; everybody hates page loads. SEO-wise, there is a problem because the search engines can’t see all the HTML because everything is being rendered client side.

Basically, with a traditional web page written in PHP, the HTML is constructed from a template. The template spits out HTML from the server to the client. Every time you click a new link to load a new page, it’s delivered to your client via a GET request (EDIT: Your client/browser "asks" for the file from the server, the server sends the requested document back to the client).

With a SPA, JS is doing some DOM manipulation, and you’re not making round-trips to the server to display new content. For example, if you were to look at the source of a SPA written in Angular, you might see some <div ng-view> </div> elements, but almost no actual html. The web crawlers would see something similar.

There are several tactics for circumventing this issue, and Im curious if the Pintrest team considered them during this experiment. Anybody on the team here?

Lol, I hope that was a joke (i think it was), for those who aren't aware, this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig

When will we stop thinking in terms of "How things look through my glasses". I.E. My glasses have red tint, so the whole world looks red. Your glasses have a green tint, so likewise, the world is green to you.

Some identify their car as feminine, as in, "She's fast, I tell you what!". Others identify their vehicles as masculine, "This guy right here, he can do 0-60 in under 6 seconds!"

The part that bugs me is when you are wearing red glasses and you tell me the world is red, even though I have green ones and tell you with (my own) certainty that it is not. In reality, these definitions shift all the time, as does your eye-wear (tomorrow I'm thinking of wearing blue glasses) as the combination of properties that make you YOU evolve.

Gender can be like glasses sometimes. While our perceptions are a complicated combination of all sorts of properties, i.e. "I'm male with blue glasses who grew up in California." + 1,000,000 * otherThings... wearing blue glasses is a common denominator. So, yes, when you only cite female sources, and you are talking about hard to measure concepts like the quality a word implies (where quality is based on perception), it’s very easy to reason that something like “Maker” can have both gender and classism baked in.

Luckily, due to this same phenomenon, tomorrow the author may review her article and think, “My that was a silly argument”. Likewise, I may do the same.

Once upon a time, there was nothing to read on an airplane but SkyMall. SkyMall held it's audience captive, and all but the most foresighted of us, whom thought to bring a book or some similar textual vessel, were held hostage by it's mediocrity. But then, one day, the great and powerful Science came. Championed by it's favored son, the Internet, Science set the passenger's free of the evil SkyMall's iron grip on airborne eyes. "But smartphones cause interference with airplanes for some reason!" SkyMall's proponents cried. "No" said Science, "Do gas stations explode when you receive a phone call?" it asked. "Yes" said the SkyMallians, "Of course they do!". "Please die and don't reproduce" said Science. And all was well.

Im with King, have you ever seen how the Big 4 accounting firms treat their employees? The TL;DR is they pack em in as tight as they can.

http://www.examiner.com/article/pwc-deloitte-e-y-and-kpmg-bi...

Had to reply to my own post. After reading the rest of these threads.. damn people, you are so cold. Lol. Sounds like the lot of you jaded old know-it-alls. You forget that once upon a time, you too knew nothing about starting a business. Some of the criticism here has been constructive, and kudos to those who took the effort to comment something thoughtful.

The author made some mistakes, maybe a lot of mistakes, but we all have, and we all will. I'm very happy for you all for your "better" methods for success though :).

I completely disagree, I think the manner in which the author shared this story is full of the sort of insight (and emotion) that is often left out of these stories.

This is a human story, not a manifesto or technical thesis. For someone like me who has attempted similar, and have failed similarly, its good simply to know I'm not alone in the emotional roller-coaster these scenarios create. I find it kind of inspirational how he found meaning from seemingly banal events and comical misfortune.

Is this comment itself not a tangent on a tangent?

I think, perhaps, the reason its not "as bad" is precisely because of the preparations and warnings.

>I've tried React and Angular, but I simply don't understand what they offer over Vanilla JS.

Agreed, especially considering many devs choose Angular, Ember, etc. to perform easy two-way data binding. However, two-way data binding can be achieved fairly easily in vanilla JS. I recall Javascript Weekly sharing a great article about how simple it is to do: http://www.sellarafaeli.com/blog/native_javascript_data_bind...

Total non-sequitor but...I'm surprised no one else has yet made the observation that Philae Lander put together is philaender, or philander. Juvenile post of the day award anybody?

Yesterday I would have said they don't care about other platforms and compatibility issues. Today I'm not so sure. Anyway, looks like at least the GitHub has alternative font values:

    wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI",Segoe,"Segoe WP",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif

Truth, they are still there. Like many other Microsoft products they will likely be here for many years to come (with or with going open source). I just meant to say that it seems up till now we were seeing a decline in the .NET community. I know more than a few MS pro's jump ship, including at least one MVP.

This completely caught me by suprise. Will .NET see a comeback now? Or is it too little too late? In any event, this is a huge move for Microsoft who has historically avoided open source(ive always thought of yhem as the anti-open-source company).

I see things like this and am immediately humbled. Impressive work, the bar just got raised a bit.