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Re:Engineers in San Francisco Have Mediocre Take Home Pay on Thursday August 10, 2017 @04:17PM (#14983745)
This is based on the latest U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data: https://www.mytrove.com/t/cheddar-counter/methodology
Re:Yahoo is now giving eight weeks of paternity leave on Thursday May 02, 2013 @02:25AM (#5642898)
Facebook gives 4 months of paternal & maternal leave.

I really appreciate it being equal because then both men & women on my team are absent for the same amount of time (and there's no stigma about taking all of it)

Re:Facebook has 1 billion monthly active users on Thursday October 04, 2012 @11:21AM (#4612724)
And do you still log into those accounts every month?
Re:How Facebook keeps 100 petabytes of Hadoop data online on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @03:46PM (#4108019)
Probably better to link to the original article instead of a summary: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/n/101508...
Re:Tools for startups along their lifetime on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @06:54PM (#2069117)
I second the wiki suggestion.

My experience, thus far, with Google Docs:

- Click on link and browse around a bit

- As usual, use backspace key to go back to HN

- Nothing happens, tap backspace key a few more times out of habit

- Accidentally delete most of the presentation

I was talking to some friends at Berkeley and apparently they're learning Scheme. My first reaction was "meh, that's not very practical". However, I can guess as to why they chose it:

a) It levels the playing field for people who have and haven't programmed before (a much smaller percentage of new students have probably had previous experience with Scheme)

b) It forces students to take on a new way of thinking.

As some other people have said, it doesn't really matter what language you learn. It's important that you learn to think and solve problems.