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They're pretty annoying. If they want to get feedback, maybe make it prominent on the front page, but to have it right there on every single page - occasionally covering up other things - it's really obnoxious.

Indeed. The author of this article is pretty badly misinformed.

you really needed someone to tell you that it's easy to contribute to open source?

The door close button in my previous apartment worked. Then again the door stayed open for an unreasonably (for a guy in his 20's) long time because of the number of elderly people in the building.

Their last one was somewhat more relevant.

Yeah I'm pretty terrible on the phone, and I have over 5 years of professional experience (plus coding since I was about 15). So when I get to the part of the phone call where they ask computer science questions I haven't thought about in a bunch of years, I usually just fumble about, get concepts confused, and generally completely blank out.

The better ones are the companies who ask you to do a coding assignment (and I'm not talking FizzBuzz). Sure I wouldn't want to end up having TOO MANY companies ask me to do it since it would be very time consuming, but certainly if you're taking your time to go through the process you should be able to put some time into writing a small demo app for companies you're passionate about joining.

interesting...

Could somebody help me out here - I was under the impression (and perhaps this is just the case for Canadian schools?) that you need a student number to register for courses. If you're not admitted to the school, how can you get a student number to register for courses?

Yeah really, I was kinda hoping to read through some relevant posts, but it's just been taken over by a bunch of tards concentrating on his SWTOR comments.

I wonder how many more Armstrongs can show up on HN's front page? Maybe get something about Hellcat Records on here and we can have two Tim Armstrongs!

Launch48: Encouraging people to throw unrefined shit against the wall and see if it sticks.

What's wrong with making the site region-based? Maybe don't discriminate by country, but certainly limit people to their own region/country. If people are looking for slave labour from India there's always Elance.

Seems like a lot of people are stoned when entering prices. $10 for 10 grams?

It's VMs all the way down!

At the risk of getting downvoted like crazy, can somebody please explain to me the point of this blog post? It's just a couple of empty comparisons of Scala to lego/smartphones and C++/C#/Haskell to morse code.

Programmers are not people. They are robots without friends or families and they really hate being paid overtime.

My wife claims I have "value"... does that count?

What's stopping you from promoting an iPhone or Android app like any other software?

I just updated my phone with it, cant w8 to be driving and be able to use my phone's functionality without pressing buttons and whatnot

I don't really get it...

I'm about 4 years out of school (no degree - 3 year diploma + some university). I'm a Canadian looking to go to SoCal preferably. I've been doing iPhone stuff for the past two years - mostly video/image post-processing with OpenGL. Starting on some Android stuff too. I'm more of a "guts" guy than a UI guy though, so I enjoy trying to push these devices to do cool new things. I like C, C++ is okay, Java I need to re-familiarize myself with (due to Android) and I'm getting comfortable with ARM Assembly but I'm still working on getting better at it.

I feel the exact same way most of the time...

Not usually. But I also don't use a whole lot of software to be paid for.

I mean I pay for games and what not, but I do all my coding in stuff like Xcode that is free anyway. Stuff like Adobe Photoshop I have never paid for because it's way too expensive for what I use it for and all the alternatives frankly suck

Software development is different because software developers who have blogs love to have a circle-jerk about how special software developers are.

bugfixes.

I did that two weeks ago - congrats & good luck

I saw a Tesla roadster in Toronto today.

That's my Tesla IPO Day 1 story.

.xxx will be here soon - but only after we spend several more years speculating about how soon the .xxx tld will be created.

I have the Rogers/ATT N1, build number is EPE54B. So first step is to get ERD79, then ERE27, then FRF50 and FRF72?

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the EID has nothing to do with anything and it was a coincidence that the javascript changed when the vote cheating work on the backend was changed.