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Nowadays, nobody gives credits anymore on someone’s Open Source work. Everyone boasts they did it all only by themselves when they copy someone’s work, or iterate on someone else’s idea on Github. This got me thinking,…

Getting in a pointless PR argument is one of the soul crushing reality developers face everyday. How do you say "There's no point of dragging a non-winnable argument with you, so if you want this feature to be approved…

All the new passenger drones that are coming out have the propellers sticking out, which clearly is a design flaw, and have a serious safety hazard issues around people. Why don't they consider a passenger drone with…

I have a new company that has a requirements very similar to a feature I developed in my previous companies? Is it morally wrong to reuse the piece of code again on my current project?

I have an agreement that states that when a working product is available, I'm entitled of shares as a co-founder, depending of how much investment we have. However, due to my hopes of being compensated in the future…

It seems that Apple made it impossible for after sales Verizon iPhone 4S to be unlocked, while there are several sites that says they unlock Verizon IMEI (including mine), the reality is that all Verizon IMEI unlocking…

I was interviewed 2 days ago for a software engineer position and though I'm very confident of my technical skills, the main reason I was rejected is that I speak slow. As far as I know, I was speaking at a reasonable…

I have been fired as a co-founder of a now very successful startup company that I have spend all my energy and time building. And after being fired, I took full-time programming jobs on 3 other companies that eventually…

Feel free to add your list of things a startup office should have. Personally, here's a list of things I need to have to be fully productive and passionate on what I do. Every startup office should have at least the…

What if we have a new software license that would protect Internet freedom and re-license all the software powering the Internet?

I'm currently employed and working as a Ruby on Rails programmer for 3 years now, and I have decided that I want to start coding my product that I have been planning ever since I got interested with web applications,…

I'm not a verbose type of guy, I'm more of a reserved geek, in my job as a programmer, my boss keeps forcing me to report via email, text and phone _everything_ that is happening to me, and it greatly affected my…

Or can you work in public, open areas, or when your boss keeps watching you code?