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Mind posting links to those several outstanding tutorials on the web?

I agree that having a population highly capable of reasoning and critical thinking is a good thing. But I do think this vision of an enlightened society is a little bit of an ivory…

This is exactly my feelings as well. I just compare my situation with my parents and see that they had it ridiculously easy compared to what my situation is like now, while the lif…

Why not just pay everyone at the company the same salary, and adjust it each year to be 10% over the average salary. That would 1. take the issue of money off the table 2. free up …

Someone is making an effort to lower the threshold to my field of expertise, and make it available to a general public. My livelihood depends on this! We must divert our energies t…

Yes, it's normal to do 90% maintenance. But there are two issues here, one is regarding the tasks having to do more with updating/enhancing an existing product, as opposed to creat…

Ok I'll go with that, let's say we're similar to or better off. But just to be prepared, if it should turn out to be the other way around, or if this would happen in the future, wh…

Ok I'll name my working conditions: A work environment with peace and quiet to be able to concentrate. Have enough time to be able to deliver though-out quality work. Having reason…

It's funny how most comments here are dancing around the issue trying to point out factual errors and counterexamples. Bottom line: Young adults today have it way worse than their …

Yeah of course you'd bring them in for an interview to talk about those projects if they show a promising portfolio. I just can't imagine hearing someone say "Yeah this guy is a gr…

There is a lot of focus on team work. I'm still not sure if programming is suited for team work. There's clearly some activities of creative problem solving which are better suited…

This reminds me on what Zed Shaw said in The ACL is Dead, when he compared programming to publishing magazines. Lots of people collaborating in creative tasks aiming for a deadline…

- Let's say a critical bug is found in production code, could you explain the basic work flow from when it's found to when it's fixed?

IDE's: When things feel only vaguely familiar, and you know just enough to be dangerous.