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Why Does Work Start At 9 A.M.?
I prefer to come into work a little earlier before our 9 a.m. start time in order to leave before 5 p.m. My boss has no problem with my hours, though an older female colleague apparently does. She regularly tells me that this “special†work schedule is damaging my career trajectory and conveys to others that I am a diva. To that I reply, according to whom? There are many workplace assumptions that employees accept without question. Why does the traditional work day start at 9 a...
Work,Start time,9 am,Reason,Women 2012-01-19 10:12:09
The Hungry Programmer
Programming is a lot like eating. Tonight I was hungry. I wasn't at home. I couldn't go to the kitchen for a snack. I looked around and saw only McDonald's across the street. Then I was struck with the same dilemma that I face whenever I leave the comfort of my own home for any decent spread of time: Do I eat crappy food now and satisfy that hunger? Or do I stay hungry for a little longer and eat a healthy meal back at home? As I pondered this dilemma I couldn't help but notice how much i...
Programmer,Hungry,Coder,Coding 2012-01-19 11:04:30
Google engineer: What I learned in the war
Veteran's Day is an ideal time to hear from one of those rare folks who combine corporate and military careers. Dan Cross, a software engineer at Google (GOOG) and a 1st Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps, took a leave to serve active duty in Afghanistan, came home a year ago, and brought back lessons that he couldn't have learned in business. While he had never seen himself as the military type until a personal tragedy made him reroute his career, he's a better man for it. Cross, 34, is now an...
Military,Marine,Google,Engineer,Lessons,Teamwork 2011-11-12 10:36:03
Read 10 new books from O'Reilly for free
Recently O'Reilly provided free access to some books. Some of them are even in early release status. Here we recommend 10 of them. 1ã€Mastering Perl 2ã€Git Pocket Guide 3ã€Vagrant: Up and Running 4ã€High Performance Browser Networking 5ã€802.11ac: A Survival Guide 6ã€Test-Driven Development with Python 7ã€Interactive Data Visualization for the Web 8ã€HTML5 Canvas 9ã€Programming JavaScript Applications 10ã€Agile Data Source : http://linu...
O'Reilly,Free book,Early release 2013-07-03 07:56:20
Different types of font icons
A website with just text belongs to the pre Web 2.0 era. A modern site will have different icons appearing on different places on the site. This will give the visitor a better visual feeling. But to have a set of consistent and well crafted icons is not an easy task. It may even require a dedicated icon designer to design them. Fortunately, we now can use font icons provided by many people around the web. Today we will introduce some of them. Font Awesome Font Awesome is an open source font ico...
font icon, web design, font awesome 2015-07-19 06:22:48
10 reasons why I "hate" working in Facebook
To me, the past two years in Facebook is simply a nightmare, To celebrate the upcoming 2 year anniversary, I decided to jump out of it. Facebook, I have so many reasons to hate you. However, for fear that readers find me too annoying, I take my complaints to be condensed into the top ten reasons.1. Why should submit so much code? In the past two years, the number of Facebook engineers is doubled, and the amount of code submitted by each engineer is also increased with the increase of the number ...
YOU'RE A DEVELOPER, SO WHY DO YOU WORK FOR SOMEONE ELSE?
As a developer, you are sitting on a goldmine. Do you even realize it? No, seriously, a @#$% goldmine!Never in modern history has it been so easy to create something from scratch, with little or no capital and a marketing model that is limited only by your imagination.Think about the biggest websites you visit or use on a regular basis: Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Foursquare, or even Google for that matter -- all of them were created by developers who created something from little more than an id...
Why PHP is (so much) better than Ruby?
I attended this weekend my first Ruby conference, Ruby Lugdunum in Lyon. Besides cool talks and the fun of meeting people like Nick, Blake, or Laetitia, my friend Camille & I did a surprise lightning talk about how PHP is better than Ruby. Here are the slides and a more detailed transcript: A lot of free hosts: it’s easy to find a PHP host, you just have to google “free php host†and you find a ton of free PHP/MySQL hostsBigger community: The PHP community is really huge,...
PHP,Ruby,Comparism,Difference,Advantage 2011-06-29 08:34:12
IDC lists top 6 myths, realities about open source
Summary: What are the top 6 myths? That open source software will enter every market, is inherently innovative, it improves faster than commercial software, that it has less lock-in, that it’s free and that it has little benefit if one is not involved in the community. IDC calls these ideas “myths†but acknowledges there’s more than a grain of truth to all of them At its Directions 2012 conference in Boston today, IDC rev...
IDC,Open source,Reality,Free,Contribution 2012-03-16 08:47:53
5 Reasons Your Javascript Stinks
Javascript gets a bad rap on the Internet, but there are few languages that are so dynamic, so widespread, and so deeply rooted in our lives as Javascript is. The low barrier of entry leads some people to call it a script kiddie language, others scoff at the concept of a dynamic language while riding their statically typed high horse. You and Javascript just got off on the wrong foot, and now you've made it angry. Here's five reasons why your Javascript code sucks.1. You're not using a namespace...
JavaScript,Good,Habit,Prototype,OOP 2011-04-13 12:25:37
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