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Re:The Neuroscience of Drumming on Monday August 17, 2015 @11:58AM (#10073866)
As someone with a similar level of experience, you are dead on.

Ask HN: What should I be asking for salary wise as a soon to be graduate

Posted by micromarty on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @01:24PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am soon to be Computer Science/Business graduate in the Los Angeles,CA area and am trying to figure what to be expecting/asking for salary wise.My background:-I have been programming for 9 years-I have worked for the CTO of my college through out college designing and implementing J2EE web applications from end to end.-I have had an internship every summer during college all related to...

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Re:Ask HN: Should I code my next project in PHP or Ruby? on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @01:28PM (#5752381)
http://railsforzombies.org/
Re:Ask HN: Should I code my next project in PHP or Ruby? on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @01:21PM (#5752331)
I had this dilemma while back. I decided to suck it up and learn Ruby and Rails. I now realized that I hate PHP and have used rails, django, and play for all of my web applications and have not looked back.

If you are in a learning mood, I'd say go with rails.

Re:The overlooked issue of Windows 8 on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @01:18PM (#5752310)
If Windows 8.1 gets rid of you having to use metro, it will be awesome. I like everything about windows 8 minus the metro part, which is were almost all of the windows 8 complaints go. Hopefully Microsoft will deliver.
Re:Always Be Coding – How to Land an Engineering Job on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @12:49PM (#5752077)
I am a soon to be college grad and am currently going through the hiring process at many companies. This article is pretty in line with what I have been seeing so far.
Re:Xbox One Revealed on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @02:24PM (#5745664)
The 3 OS thing is very interesting. I can't wait for all the jokes saying how one Microsoft OS barley works yet alone 3 at the same time.
Re:Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use? on Saturday May 18, 2013 @07:38PM (#5730913)
Xubuntu on my netbook, Ubuntu on my desktop with Cinnamon