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Functions have never been about simply being called different places. So you entire premise is wrong.

I still prefer the one the right. I'm able to skip entire sections of code, and assume what the function does. Only if I require details do I go deeper. The comments are metadata, …

I.e The boss is feeling threatened excuse.

My mistake, I just heard someone mention it before.

Its a way of making sure the power stays with the powerful.

Are you kidding? Middle Management are often the first to go. They produce no real work, they just provide less work for upper management.

People on HN have this weird distinction where if your an engineer you stay an engineer. In the real world, most career structures involve coming in a engineer and then progressing…

I'm pretty sure its illegal for non-lawyers to manage lawyers.

What makes you think mangers don't suffer from the same thing. Managers are also highly educated often more so(MBAs etc) etc except they will be trying to employ fancy management r…

Assuming they work those hours. I spend the spare hours when I can't sleep watching films.

A basic diagram with some arrows explains pointers pretty well.

Not in my experience, those have patience to study a phd or a masters are those who are really passionate about the subject. Those who move on to them tend to be the hardcore kids …

I agree with observations and comments. Well you can live without profits for sometime, if you run out of working cash, your stuffed. This is why loans, and factoring come in and i…

I am british, and I could not stop laughing at the accent. You can tell its how someone not britain thinks how a british person speaks. Waaay to exaggerated.

Depends what role obviously. If your doing research into compliers, or programming language semantics or something then programming will be required.

Did you cheat and use a regex library in your lexer, or did you build a regex engine aswell? I built recursive descent parser, and a lexer using the posix regex libary in 2 days fi…

I don't understand how someone can not understand pointers and recursion. There are very intuitive, you have to probably have to study bits of math which is more unintuitive to get…

There are tons of sites running on java. Possibly more than php.

Thinking about this. I'd think i'd have the courage to go talk to the president of the united states or prime minister in the uk. However I'd don't think have the courage to talk t…

I've met dumb academically, but successful entrepreneur types to.

I think as long as you correctly state that it was project at company you were an employee at, and no NDA's it should be fine.

Those Java and .NET jobs probably provide you with more money to look after your family as well. All the interesting jobs, seem to lack higher salaries, in the UK anyway.

Pretty much every Uni in the UK, pretty much says when you join Computer Science, forget everything you learned in ICT lessons. I did Btec ND electronic/computer engineering at col…

They are stock phrases, most people ignore them. It's like adding buzzwords to a business plan. What they are meant to mean is that you developed in a wide range of areas, such as …

I'm having a feeling in a few years, if his persistent why the blog post was a bit silly.