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The content of that post is amazingly on point. Anyone looking to build a clientele should follow it.

Thats a frequent opinion that sounds sensible. But when you put some thought into it, you realize that a lot of the electorate are poor uneducated people who did not know better.

It means that when you fire one person it affects many more. When you fire 7,500 there are thousands more affected.

Firing people has an exponential effect.

I feel we are witnessing what happened to the newspaper once again. Only this time there is an interesting twist: manufacturers have been bailed out. Will the government step in again? No one knows.

I feel this is meant as:

"If you want to present at a big conference, then you must have experience doing smaller conferences or presentations."

You can gain experience by presenting in local meetups, making videos and posting them online, doing short tech talks at your job, etc. Doing those first will net you a lot of valuable skills and experiences.

Still worth reading because ruby is beautiful.

Another vote for ardupilot here. Easy hardware because its an arduino, great community and simple to use.

Some people are able to do it. But most are exaggerating or not doing the exercises. It takes me weeks to properly finish a good technical book due to time constraints. Either way, just do your best and forget about anybody else.

I've worked on enough projects to have covered both sides of the equation. The pristine codebase that belonged on a museum yet took way too much time to ship a feature. The other side of the coin with the codebase that somehow worked (no one knew how) and brought in millions because people would keep piling stuff on top of it. Have also worked with a codebase that started off awfully and was cleaned up enough to reduce the amount of time lost on stupid bugs and and thus increased how effective the team was delivering new features (with a direct financial improvement as a result because sales picked up significantly). It all boils down to finding a balance. Sadly, people confuse technical perfection with a product that works.

I've been in the game long enough to realize how true this is. Good point. It will certainly make people here defend their sacred choices.

It sounds weird, but I believe its meant as "untrained minds".

I've had somewhat similar experience with other big companies. People wonder why I hate to change jobs.

Sometimes I wonder if this approach has hurt Google's ability to innovate.