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Fair question. Maybe it's the belief that a company is bigger than one person? Or perhaps it's closer to "separating the art from the artist?"

Where I work, they called it a "workforce rebalancing," which I thought was a nice touch.

Hi Sam,

In your opinion, what is the greatest impediment to getting better software into government. Second, is there a market opportunity in alleviating this/these impediments?

This is a killer UI. Congrats. Once you get a live demo rolling I'm willing to bet you'll drum-up even more interest.

Larry Wall's discussion on the logo, Camelia (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/perl6/mu/master/misc/camel...):

Discussion Highlights =====================

From: Larry Wall Date: March 24, 2009 10:25 Subject: Re: Logo considerations

[...] I think there's a tendency to go way too abstract in most of these proposals. I want something with gut appeal on the order of Tux. In particular I want a logo for Perl 6 that is:

    Fun
    Cool
    Cute
    Named
    Lively
    Punable
    Personal
    Concrete
    Symmetric
    Asymmetric
    Attractive
    Relational
    Metamorphic
    Decolorizable
    Shrinkable to textual icon
    Shrinkable to graphical icon

In addition, you can extend just about anything by attaching "P6" wings to it. I also take it as a given that we want to discourage misogyny in our community. You of the masculine persuasion should consider it an opportunity to show off your sensitive side. :)

Hence, Camelia.

Larry

Yes it is: http://i.imgur.com/sJjJwSa.png

I love the bug, but it's because I have a two year old daughter.

>> While most of these plugins didn't offer much in terms of functionality, for the person making a decision, it definitely helped to tip the scales in Jira's favor.

For me, this kinda encapsulates the problem with Jira. Jira is extremely impressive in the number of features, plugins, and customization opportunities it offers, and yet, I can't honestly say even half of the stuff is in any way helpful to me as a developer.

Great start! Love the UI.

FYI I bookmarked this in my "cool shit" folder. This is a high honor.

My thoughts exactly. It's not awful by any stretch of the imagination, but Dropbox has traditionally set itself apart on design.

Do you think a version of this system could work in a team that has mostly "b-players?" I just wonder how much of this stays afloat because the caliber of the engineers is higher than that of your typical company.

I need to get my butt in gear and finish-up my blog on criticisms of criticisms of Angular.

Usually just a text editor. For a while I was using Atom and now I'm on Visual Studio Code.

I own a 2015 13" MBP (Retina) and it's a fine machine for coding. I don't ever hook it up to an external.

I promise it wasn't that many.

I don't think this is a joke. I think this is just something that probably isn't useful as a library/framework/whatever + maybe an incomplete understanding of how CSS best fits into the puzzle.

This could have saved my morning...

> We've decoupled Angular 2's rendering from the DOM.

Does this mean they are using some sort of virtual dom a la React?

I don't think it is. Also, isn't that sort of the deal with semantic versioning, i.e. a change in the major version # mean there are breaking changes?

Most of their revenues come from the enterprise market.

Good question. My guess is expansion? Perhaps they switch into growth-by-acquisition-mode?

Doing a little digging, there is a handler attached to the mousemove event on the canvas element. There is a credit here: Thanks to Giovanni Difeterici (http://www.gdifeterici.com/)

... but it's minified and I can't hunt down the source.

I have had three "bigboy" software jobs in my career and the same thing has always served me well:

It is always the expectation of those charged with the task of training or managing you that early-on you will start slow and be an impediment to the company. If you can figure out a way to violate that expectation, e.g. produce something meaningful in your first 1-2 weeks, you will have made a good impression that will last for a while. Build on that impression.

To me it seems to follow along the lines of VCs investing in things like npm, where they believe they might reap benefits indirectly down the line.

Great, that is very encouraging. Thank you.

Hi! I am 32 years old, have a young family, and a steady software engineering job at a large software company. I have always loved the idea of a traditional YC experience but have never applied because I feel like I am not at a stage in my life where I'd be a good fit. Is it fair to say that this Fellowship experiment is an attempt to examine the "may have a good idea but is not very mobile" demographic?

Amazon, the utility?

This is an interesting idea, as it does attempt to solve a problem. Filling out applications can be very tedious.

I have a couple of questions:

1. A lot of job applications require information like a social security number. Is there a way you can do what you need to do without that information?

2. None of the links in the footer work. I think any business that is actively engaging in the collection of personal data, even if the clients are willfully giving it to you, should provide access to all of your legal docs and maybe even an FAQ.

3. Potentially there is a large % of your customer base that are short on cash, since I think it's safe to assume that a lot of them don't currently have a job. Do you collect the fees up front? If so that can be a problem.

All the time. I deal with almost constant anxiety over how my time is spent, even to the point where I can't always enjoy leisure activities. I don't know what drives this. I am not an overly competitive person and already have a decent job where people respect me and my abilities as a programmer, yet I rarely spend a waking moment not thinking about all the things I could be grokking.

I guess what it boils down to is that a lot of my self esteem is derived from being knowledgable and resourceful. It really embarrasses me when I don't even have a shallow depth of knowledge about a subject matter that could be potentially useful.

I don't really have much advice for you because I haven't really solved this one for myself, but one thing I try to do is concentrate on very short term goals. For example, when I was learning Angular a few years ago, I knew going into it that I wouldn't "get it" right away. After a few frustrating days I decided to break-up my learning into small goals, e.g. "what are promises and how do they work?" "What is the syntax?" "When should they be used?" I tried to avoid unrelated documentation and stack overflow posts because I knew that it would lead me into rabbit-hole after rabbit-hole. I wasn't 100% successful, but it did help me block out some of the cognitive dissonance.

The only other thing I'd say is that even though this is frustrating, I like to think that your anxiety is actually a good thing if you learn to channel it constructively. It's a good thing to want to know about a lot of stuff!