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by _m4 15y ago
"Strive for winning the small battles, if you can." Interesting. I am no entrepreneur but lead developers at a large corp. My scheme is to pick the battles. Usually not the small ones. I always thought entrepreneurs would do it likewise, th
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by _m4 15y ago
I understand that most of the performance boost comes from the the invokedynamic optimization, not from anything special inside JRuby. So, does this mean we can expect the same goodness for other dynamic JVM languages? Clojure maybe?
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by _m4 15y ago
He is missing the point that mostly, people set themselves up for getting feedback, or not. Especially in a leadership position, one can actively create a feedback culture or a "yes men" culture. I'd even venture to say that good leaders ca
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by _m4 15y ago
Nice list! That is pretty much what I am expecting of myself and other more senior developers. I guess, I am not a super good "drill" sergeant, though. All I can do is leading by example, mainly doing a lot of pairing. But that is time cons
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by _m4 15y ago
I wish I knew how the Googles and Facebooks hire a crowd of junior programmers and have them do these amazing things. I am in the 5th year of leading development teams and have more than 5 years to go until my half-life is over. Yet, I have
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by _m4 15y ago
I disagree to reduce programmers to geeks that only have fun when there is a ton of new technology and a fancy feature that only they like. Most people I've worked with have fun when the project goes well, customers are happy and the like.
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by _m4 15y ago
Well, no organization should complain too loud if it is not valueing the IT department as much as it does its profit centers. The situation in the most companies is that IT is trimmed as cheap as possible, so what do people expect to happen
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by _m4 15y ago
One of the better HTML5 walkthroughs. I like that he emphasizes almost seamless transition from XHTML. That's the key point, not all the new features! I did not know about the Javascript shiv to make old browsers support HTML5. Very neat! W
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by _m4 15y ago
I use Ruby a lot and love it! But one should be fair and take into account that it has had much more time maturing. From what I can tell, it is plateauing right now. On a high level admittedly. Instead of concluding that Clojure is not the
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by _m4 15y ago
I am a bit suprised to not see TDD or any of its siblings being pulled into the discussion. To me, the better someone is doing TD, the better the code communicates because TDD makes you think about the right things when coding. It sets your