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being an expert is more than about getting people to listen. If that is all you can manage, then they will see through this shallow desire and not give you the status that you believe you deserve

design that lessons learned four years ago do not apply today. But I’m not convinced that is the case. In my experience, although technology changes, people do not. The majority of unexpected issues that arise when developing a website relates either to human error or to some element of user experience

Too many of the people I worked with coasted through the years with no passion for their work. Without passion, they had no desire to learn new things or push boundaries.

always code like you’re working in a team, even when you’re not

Write comments like you’re talking to a rubber duck! Good comments take care of 99% of what you hand over and — more importantly —  take care of your documentation. Your code should be the documentation. Comments are also an excellent way to show off. Ever wanted to tell someone how awesome a bit of your code is but never found the chance? This is that chance! Explain how clever it is, and just wait for people to read it. Egos aside, though, comments do force you to write nicer code. I’ve found that writing extensive comments has made me a better developer. I write cleaner code, because writing comments reminds me that I’m intending for others to read the code

I worried about being seen as too young, or too brown, or too female, or too uneducated to offer the solution to the group.

But mostly, I worried about being... too wrong.

the plan seems crazy and the issue is Z, but since it's plain to me, well they must see it too.

When you try to move beyond the Hey, I'm not using Facebook! How does this work? dimension of Google+, you find there's no reason to stay. The site's worse than irrelevant: it's redundant. There's no niche, no small slice to serve, no tight community of geeks in need of a petri dish.

Facebook is stellar at what it sets out to do. It murdered photo sharing services, decimated the use of Instant Messaging, is in the ring with Twitter, and, of course, is where all your friends are. And for a social network, we want to be where our friends are

Google+ has a news feed—Facebook's is better. Google+ has a wall of some kind—Facebook's is better. Google+ had "Circles," which illicit erections across the internet for some reason—Facebook stole the idea and made Lists, which are the same thing. And that last one's crucial. No matter what Google+ might have on Facebook, Facebook can always take. They stole Twitter for statuses, they ripped AIM and Skype for Facebook Chat, and they'll ransack whatever few nuggets of worth lie in Google+ as well. They'll always be ahead.

The one absolutely solid place to store your capital today — if you know how to do it –  is in software developers’ wallets.

people who can invest in developers, developers, and everybody else