Year: 2016
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Just shut up and let your devs concentrate, advises Stack Overflow CEO Joel Spolsky
If you want to attract and keep developers, don’t emphasize ping-pong tables, lounges, fire pits and chocolate fountains. Give them private offices or let them work from home, because uninterrupted time to concentrate is the most important and scarcest commodity...
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Godzilla's Family Vlog Review - Episode: IRL Special - Mum's 60th Birthday
Does this review look familiar? It might, a little... my content was shamelessly reused.
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Are You Colorblind?
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King of West African tribe returns to landscaping job in Canada
Vancouver residents looking to hire some landscaping help this fall could end up with royalty tending to their hedges and bagging up leaves...
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Quantum Entanglement and the Great Bohr-Einstein Debate | PBS Space Time
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Trans Sex | Sexplanations
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HTC accepts no responsibility should you accidentally summon an intra-dimensional chaos god, ushering in a new dark age for humanity.
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IBM PC - Computerphile
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Augmented Reality
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What I Didn't Understand as a Junior Programmer
I remember the first time I saw a codebase over a million lines. It was at my internship, a large 10+ year old system, in multiple languages, thousands of unit tests, organized into several projects and dll's that would take the whole night to recompile. Some of the projects had complex build processes, requiring extensive …
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Smoke and maglev spinning top
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In Defense Of A Boring, Comfortable Life
They call it “the easy life” for a reason.
I got my degree from a small, public college in upstate New York.
People went there, got their degrees and then went off to have quiet and sometimes boring lives. Although a degree from the State University of New York (SUNY) system is a valuable commodity outside of … -
Godzilla's Family Vlog Review - Episode ??
Just because there hasn't BEEN an episode of Godzilla Huntley's IRL (the "Family Vlog") in a long while doesn't mean that I can't do a review of one, right?
Right? See Godzilla's channel (to complain about the lack of a new vlog yet).
Music: Starkey, by Koona, used under a Creative Commons license.
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I'll be coaching at @codebar #Oxford on 11 October! More details/sign up at https://t.co/gMiw13DdI4
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How you know your job is awesome: "Shall we get the VR toys out before or after we go for ice cream?" @j_townshend @mccarthy_liz