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By taking the leader's opinions as fact, your company may grow so rigid that innovation becomes impossible.

Workplace stress costs the U.S economy hundreds of billions of dollars per year and is prevalent across all types of organizations and workplaces. If you have adopted or are in the process of adopting the devops methodology and culture, chances are your software developers are burning out as well.

personally think that developers shouldn't care about code beauty, because that's not their job. Instead, they should focus on creating great products, which is infinitely more satisfying. Code Fashion What defines beauty in code? Just like for clothes, opinions on the subject may vary. Each year, we find new trend-setters, like Jeff Atwood, Martin Fowler, or Eric Evans. They offer convincing arguments to explain why pattern A is better than pattern B. Until someone else publishes a book, explaining that pattern C is much, much better

If you've been-there-done-that and you're now building your dream home with your retirement fund, this post really isn't for you. Congratulations are in order. But if, like me, you find yourself getting older and still can't resist the desire to keep coding and building things, then read on.

The customer-service obsessed company calls its executives "monkeys," has staffers ring cowbells to greet guests, and offers new employees cash to quit as a way to test their loyalty. The Las Vegas-based retailer is now going even more radical, introducing a new approach to organizing the company. It will eliminate traditional managers, do away with the typical corporate hierarchy and get rid of job titles, at least internally.

firemna kultura open-minded firmy ktora sa venuje domain name registracii a cloud hostingu.

Google's Tel Aviv office has a Lego room, a music room, a full gym, a slide between floors, a rooftop deck overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, and much more.

- "...it seems most office workers would rather be in an office..." - "...89% -- said they are most productive when working alone"

nelinearne citanie na ktore staci maly displej. tie ukazky na stranke posobia dost presvedcivo.

Overené praktiky a zásady vývoja softvéru vo firme thoughbot.com (via rubyslava)

namiesto sedenia pri pocitaci stoji.

I do a lot of work on open source, but my most valuable contributions haven't been code. Writing a patch is the easiest part of open source. The truly hard stuff is all of the rest: bug trackers, mailing lists, documentation, and other management tasks. Here's some things I've learned along the way...

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Vyborne tipy, nielen z hladiska review, napr. body 1 a 4.

volne dostupna knizka. povazujem knizku za prinosnu pre tych ktoria komunikuju so zakaznikmi (tech support). Dealing With Disrespect is a short, simple to read, free book that provides a straight-forward guide for handling this kind of challenging feedback, picking out the legitimate criticism to learn from, and how to not just ignore the haters, but how to manage them. The book helps put all communication, whether on or offline, into perspective and helps you to become a better communicator yourself.

pre vsetkych co tuzia po SUV a vacsom byte ci dome..

dobra ranna meditacia...

"It's what the movie studios want for their products, it's what professional writers want for their work, it's what newspapers want - hell, it's what everyone wants: attention. Attention is power." So wrote the actor James Franco in an article on the selfie phenomenon in The New York Times last winter.

It all sounds so straightforward: Put your code up on GitHub or start/join a project at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), build a community of like-minded individuals, start a company, take in some funding, and then IPO. Or maybe not. One thing is certain: Running an open source company has unique challenges and opportunities.

zopar inspiracii [dz]o zivota inzinierov :) + cesky preklad: http://www.zdrojak.cz/clanky/byti-seniornim-inzenyrem/