Sam Barley sat lazily, throbbing back and forth against the mesh net of his mid-tier office chair, thinking about one thing: the only thing guys in their mid 20s employed at a 9 to 5 thought of at this time of day. He rubbed his belly. lunch .

He wondered whether...

We specialized in web applications . There was actually a time when we considered going into desktop and native applications, but the demand for web apps was just too big that I guess my partner and I never even had the chance to decide. Our path was chosen for us.

We...

He ran a  hosting business on the side. Except for two months it never made money. But it wasn't a big deal because he needed to host websites for people, including himself and his family anyway.

He was old school, still "hosted websites". Anybody else still in the hosting game --...

D.W. spent much of their days on a computer.

Assigning human readable names to data. Assigning human readable names to operations that manipulated data.

The firm that employed D.W. compensated well. They could afford to order anything they wanted to eat and have it show up at their door. They had not...

OpenersWith the pot of fresh earl gray rooibos ready, Sally took a deep breath and dared to look directly down at the textbook that remained in her workspace. She had placed the other two textbooks under the bed, after a long battle of trying to multitask, finally coming to somehow...