The quote from the article, “my work life sort of is my personal life.” is the common attitude put forth by the sort of employees that a company like Zynga attracts. Young, without family or interests outside of work.
A company with a focus on long term employees that will stay and focus on the underlying structure that permits the business to exist will be more interested in hiring and retaining employees with interests that encapsulate more than simply staying late into the evening to "crush some code."
I'd rather someone be deep that shallow. In my career I've found that people who have unique talents tend to rise to the top because they offer that unique something that others dont.
Now, that unique talent can also be something broad like being a general, or being the the guy whose best at code reviews.
My point is that you've got to be really good at something, not just kinda good at a lot of things.
I thought it was odd as well. I think that he meant that the guy who knows a subject very well is more likely to be advanced in responsibility/seniority quickly.
If I wanted to promote somebody to be the lead developer for a small project, I might be satisfied with someone who knew the code for that project very well. But if I wanted to promote someone beyond that level, I'd be looking for somebody who knew different parts of the company's products and how they worked together (e.g., the UI and the back-end), and who understood the needs of the customers to some degree -- someone who could see the "big picture".
He's talking about the "jack of all trades, master of none" type person.
Just because you are the absolute best at one thing does not mean you are incompetent in all other areas.
To take your example: of course you wouldn't want to promote someone who only knows the code of one project very well and of course you want to promote someone who understands how all the parts of the product work together. However, the person who knows how all the parts work together and is the absolute best at shipping code, get a lot farther than the person who knows how they all work together, but doesn't execute any given function well enough to handle on his own
I really looked forward to a Bank Simple account for years, but at this point I use a high yield account for my checking. Switching to Bank Simple would cost me about $200 a year, as their banking partner offers a pittance in terms of interest on checking.
Some discussion in the blog comments about that [1]:
>Using Facebook for account registration is a short-term solution that will seriously cut down on spam, while we take our time to develop more robust spam-filter technology. We know this isn’t ideal, so rest assured: we are working towards a more lasting solution. [2]
I think for a lot of people, being able to keep a pseudonymous identity is one of the few things that differentiates sites like reddit and digg from Facebook and twitter in the first place. Most people I know aren't crazy about letting others know what their reddit username is, let alone slapping everything they do on their Facebook feed.
Exactly. My id here is my first name and initial. Correlating my username here with my full name, which is unique worldwide, is easy.
My Reddit id on the other hand does not directly tie to my name, and that's just how I like it.
It's still fairly easy to find - I don't care if people who really want to figure it out, as I don't write anything I can't stand for. If I wanted true anonymity I'd take a lot of extra precautions.
I just care that my Reddit comments don't show up on the first few pages of a Google search for my name, as it lets me not think as much about my "professional image".
Putting it on Facebook is something I'd never let happen.
There's a huge difference between being possible to find what I've written if you really care about it vs. it being showed in the face of my family, for example.
And this is without being part of any controversial sub-reddits. There are plenty of sub-reddits or individual threads that are offensive enough or controversial enough that I'd imagine they'd die pretty quickly if people were forced connect their Reddit identities to anything that might be directly matched to their names.
While I haven't looked into this particular scenario. You used to be able to revoke individual permissions per app / site on FB. It's under Privacy > App & Sites, obviously it defaults to on as it's convenient for the site in question. An entirely different debate.
From the FAQ Under 'Why Facebook [for logins]?' "We're building the Digg for 2012" - I get that like 1/13 people on the planet are on Facebook, but what about the other 12? Twitter? Or even shudder Google?
My lawd man, build your own. You restricted yourself to 6 weeks, not users.
His 401(k) could simply be a self-directed investment account. I have one that is a Roth IRA. You are limited in what can be deposited into the account, but it can grow without limit from capital gains.
Well, obviously, because you have MacBook Air. There isn't a lot of point comparing iPad apps with full OS X apps- they live in quite different worlds.
I'd further add that if you're a dev type, and expected to remotely fix stuff, that you'd have a laptop anyway. Can't see doing anything more than fixing a typo on the iPad...in which case, I'm sure a SSH app is all that's needed.
Having a local editor for remote files is super handy if your SSH is flaky for whatever reason (say, you fall off LTE into 1x or GPRS land), regardless of the device you're on. Never mind being able to take advantage of the touch screen...
You need to be connected to the network. From their website: "Can I work on my site offline? Not Currently. Diet Coda's focus is editing files on your staging server; if you want to build a whole new website while you're there, that's also cool."
