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The whole point of a blog is to be able to write what I want, isn’t it? Without the need to be coherent. Intelligent. Useful. I read somewhere, in a top 10 list of advice to programmers – to avoid constipation. It’s actually good advice. It gives you a headache for the rest of the day. That piece of code is really not worth it, trust me. But then, when you have a headache, there isn’t anything quite as beautiful and relaxing as code. Or good documentation. Like node.js docs, for example. ...

Recruiting smart people in practice

Find people. Search on github by location and skill. Anand’s blog comments Reach out to people. Have a standard set of template, and track the template’s success.

The Social Network

4:00pm. Just started watching The Social Network. I’m fairly sure I won’t like the film, mostly because I’ll be jealous of Mark. About 5 minutes into the movie. I find myself rewinding to catch the dialogues. They’re very fast. Very, very fast. 10 minutes. I like the code. I stopped on a screen to start checking if it’s real code. It’s in Perl. Stopped myself before I started dry-running the code. ...