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Heroku's free plan is a good option, but it does require some knowledge of git/one of their supported framework. Good learning regardless.

Create an infinite scrolling effect for an image gallery. This will test out the following: * Ajax * Event handling (scroll) * Basic arithmetic (e.g. when to trigger a new request …

Terrible article in my opinion teaching some really bad habits that will cause hard to find bugs over time. Truth is, omitting semi-colons is probably fine at smaller scale, but fo…

Play a full game and you'll be surprised, the AI is actually surprisingly good and gets better as the game progresses, especially given the size of the code.

There's hidden cost associated with offering a paid membership for "privileged" users, in that it affects the overall perception of the product. Many non-paying users would feel ne…

Some good ideas in this blog post: http://karenx.com/blog/how-to-become-a-designer-without-goin... (I'm not the author of the post)

I stick to the basics: Chess.

120$/BTC hasn't been fairly stable. Just a few days ago it was at 70.

Would you be interested in trading services? I can teach you how to code, in exchange for flight instruction. I'm in SF.

SoloWizard? http://www.solowizard.com/

Did you try creating a new gmail account with that email? If you succeed, it means no one ever received those documents :)

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Absolutely, many people don't realize that interviews are a two way street. Not only is the company interviewing you to assess your technical skills and cultural fit, but you are i…

Quote from pg: "For some reason I didn't check the comments after the surgery to see if they were in the right place. I must have been distracted by something." Short answer to you…

Use PDF, it's a format that will work for anyone, or any device and is printer friendly. Now whether you want to use LaTex, html, or word to design your resume is up to you.

I've gone that route in the past, and truth is it's painful to run rails on windows (albeit not impossible). The main issue I ran into was that some gems (libraries) rely on native…

Asking whether to use Rails vs. Node is like asking whether you should use DirectX or XAML. Both can be used for rendering UI, but every technology has its strengths and weaknesses…

To follow up on my own question (about naming being the hardest thing), here's a supporting quote towards your argument: "The only real difficulties in programming are cache invali…

"Its pretty well accepted that one of the hardest things in building stuff with computers is naming things so that humans can understand whats going on." -- Hum... that's pushing i…

Please don't do this, web fundamentals will barely help for matlab.

Moved to SF recently, and was looking for a place with roommate. It was EXTREMELY hard to get anytime, and demand was insane. I ended up renting a 2 bed room apartment from a compl…

Don't be scared to ask questions. You will [most likely] be interacting with a lot of very smart people with years of valuable experience. Don't be scared to ask question and learn…

What's the problem with the 5-10 seconds wake up time in Heroku? This does NOT happen every time they are used, it only happens ONCE every an hour or more of inactivity. This limit…

I often feel the same way, and at times even feel wrong thinking it given my $$, job, and status. I almost feel ungrateful feeling that way, but that's beside the point. In my case…