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Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @09:51AM (#10655679)

Could all the large software applications of today have been created without OOP, just on functional programming paradigms? If OOP was beneficial 10 years on, maybe the cross-platform nature of HTML/CSS/JS will also be vital to future applications.

Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @09:23AM (#10655471)

So this generation is rewriting everything that was made and working in the 90s. Was everything written in the 90s also a rehash of stuff from the 70s/80s? Just curious, what was the equivalent of HTML/CSS/JS in the 80s?

Re:Ask HN: Double the income of 10 million people? (Hult Prize) on Saturday November 21, 2015 @04:58PM (#10608182)

To increase the efficiency of many people working in diverse domains, probably a '1-size-fits-all' solution would be hard to find. So something generic - one idea is, generally getting mentored by someone more experienced than you increases your efficiency/helps your career. (Mostly) everybody could use a guide/mentor, either for careers or personal lives. It could be a sort of referral program - to get access to a mentor older than you, you have to mentor someone younger than you.

Re:Ask HN: Double the income of 10 million people? (Hult Prize) on Saturday November 21, 2015 @04:18AM (#10606280)

Yes its probably simpler for the poorest 10 million. For the urban poor(no agriculture) maybe some sort of 'become a microentrepreneur' movement would be more relevant? Maybe a Mechanical Turk for real-world tasks instead of computing tasks?

Ask HN: Double the income of 10 million people? (Hult Prize)

Posted by bigquestion on Saturday November 21, 2015 @04:02AM
from the ask-hn dept.

http://www.hultprize.org/en/compete/2016-prize/2016-timeline/This year's Hult Prize is based on 'Crowded Urban Spaces' and has the challenge - "Can we build sustainable, scalable and fast-growing social enterprises that double the income of 10 million people residing in crowded urban spaces, by better connecting people, goods, services and capital?"I was brainstorming for ideas but this seems a...

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Interpersonal skills vs. coding chops

Posted by bigquestion on Thursday November 19, 2015 @03:20PM
from the self-post dept.

I'm pretty frustrated in life right now. I'm at a stage of life - end of college - which should be my prime years for socializing and learning valuable interpersonal skills. But they are also the prime years for gaining coding chops, contributing to open source to get some experience, and so on.I feel like I'm caught in a catch-22 situation - if I spend all my time coding, then my desire to...

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