neilk

I’m looking for a job and like many people in this situation am finding it unusually difficult. I’ve read rumors that many firms are actually in a hiring freeze, but they keep job reqs open for appearances. Apparently…

For a live-chat social system, we wanted a feature where users should be able to create events, like "party at 3pm on Sunday". And we'd like their friends to be notified of those events, shortly before they occur. This…

Followup from the other thread about inheriting incomprehensible codebases. It's easy to be self-righteous about the poor programming practices of those who came before us, but maybe a little confession would be good…

Based on my experiences with previous employers, a lot of people feel stuck and frustrated with whatever framework choice they have made in the past few years. (Usually Backbone or Angular 1, and the desired framework…

Let's say a startup is successful as a private business, but doesn't want to be acquired (because they believe so much in the mission and think an acquirer will ruin that). Furthermore there's also relatively little…