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"We Were The Cool Guys."

Watching the credit crisis destroy Wall Street this week, it was hard not to think of the mortgage episode of “This American Life,” which aired many months ago. Clarence Nathan: I wouldn’t have loaned me the money. And nobody that I know would have loaned me the money. I know guys who are criminals who […]

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Welcome Microsoftlings, We Love You

A job applicant just told me Thursday that “Everybody knows you don’t like Microsoft or Amazon people.” Just last week, a board member heard the same thing. Which came as news to our chief technology officer, our Seattle-based engineering leaders, three star product managers and our hyper-productive lone marketing director, all of whom worked at

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Lightweight Headless Test for Trailing Commas in JavaScript

Yesterday one of my co-workers spent hours reproducing and tracking down a bug that turned out to be a stray comma. Unfortunately, Microsoft Internet Explorer doesn’t support trailing commas in JavaScript arrays and object literals.  Code like this won’t parse: var chord = [“do”, “mi”, “so”,]; var json = { truth:”beauty”, beauty:true, }; Those final

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Honey, I Shrunk the Startups!

Barack Obama and John McCain are going to spend the next two months arguing over the economy, mostly about how to foster innovation. The politicians blame politics. In last Sunday’s New York Times, Cisco & Google engineering executives talked about the same problem. They blame the lack of engineers. Both are right. But the real

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