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# there is no 'balance', only this algorithm running my life while(True): task=getNextTask() if priority(task)>priority(current_task): backBurner.add(current_task) current_task=tas…

Well it is a kind of hack

20% lighter - because that was a big problem lugging around that heavy iphone 4. slimmer - because that thick fat iphone 4 taking up way too much room in my pocket faster - because…

When I see things like nerf guns, ping pong tables, free soda and snacks mentioned early on in the job description I pretty much pass it up right away because I assume that is all …

Why would someone need a "formal" education to do this?

:x

Vjj

Great more fake stuff, just what we need.

How does one know?

Hmm. Yeah making $300 per week sounds really great. Not. Silly article.

Good question: I've been one or the other for 19 years and I dont know what the difference is. When I tell non-tech people I am a "software developer" they think I'm some kind of "…

Ronald Reagan was a wise man and great president.

Dumb.

Math seems to work out real well for me...

Its much better to live poor when you are young then when you are old. You really, really dont want to be poor when you are too old or sick to work...

Started in 1983 on Apple IIc, writing text-based adventure games. I was 13 years old then. First professional job in 1991.

I live the burbs and commute to the city by train - but out here I love my car... I never need to drive in traffic.

I dont know if most people will need to program computers (write code) but I do think the formalism of "imperative knowledge" is actually in its infancy now. And by that I mean the…

+1

I'm a 42 year old software developer, and I stay current: SOLR, Hadoop, HBase, Storm, iOS, Clojure, HTML5, etc. Its harder to keep up now (primarily because of less time to study a…

If options are "underwater" at the time of acquisition, it can be part of the deal that acquiring company does not need to honor those, and they are basically deleted. That happene…

I somewhat agree with this. It is mostly a question of making decisions that "scale". If engineers are mostly deciding "how to build" something, then managers are mostly deciding "…

Steve Jobs created products that people love and are more than willing to pay for, even wait in long lines in the rain for. Even during the slowest economy the Apple store at my lo…

I need to port a .NET (C#) web service to Linux. We cannot use Mono, so the options are to use Java or some other language such as Python. Personally I'd prefer to use Python or so…

Have you used core text at all? Particularly, I'd like to implement some highlighting features inside text views. I'd also like to implement a hybrid text view / drawing canvas (ab…