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SEEKING WORK - Toronto or Remote Student currently completing my final year at the University of Toronto. Very experienced in web programming, especially Java/GWT, with some person…

The Future Uses section certainly has a joke-y tone, but if it's an April Fool's Day joke, then NASCAR has given them a huge amount of leeway. Usage of NASCAR trademarks, hosting v…

Sure, I guess we aren't in a post-PC era. Yet. I don't even own a tablet of any kind, but the reasons the author gives for dismissing them are extremely short-sighted. The reason p…

First, let's be clear that the term "brogrammer", tongue-in-cheek or not, is downright misogynistic. But equally problematic are the common beliefs that spawned the term in the fir…

I don't know a lick of iOS or Obj-C, but this line is absolutely true: > The biggest boon to closures, for "regular" programmers, is the dramatic simplification of async code. Cons…

Possible privacy implications aside, this is awesome. I am consistently astounded by how advanced AI techniques are becoming.

Echoing rileya, GSoC was the shimmering star on my resume when I applied for my first internship two summers ago. Mine wasn't at Google, but at a startup that decided to keep me on…

If you want to learn the entire Linux ecosystem, I can't recommend Arch enough. From personal experience, don't try to install Arch on your machine unless you have another internet…

I'm not doubting the validity of the term. Obviously it exists. The big companies -- Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. -- all have enormous datasets to work with, so of course it's r…

Sure, they can complain. But if they're going to, they should just impose more restrictions on using their code. Maybe even a copyleft license. If you can't take the heat, get out …

I find Wikipedia's blackout to be lacking in expedient information, and I see those tweets as evidence. No where on that first page does it say "SOPA", "PIPA", or anything about ce…

I'm no expert on debates, but I was paying significantly more attention to your message simply because he was being so rude and obstinate. For your part, you did extremely well to …

No one likes the tactic of interrupting every dissenting opinion, but without a doubt it's extremely effective. I know that having everyone at podiums or at a table is a very human…

I can't decide if the fact that I scored 10/10 means I follow startups too closely, or that I played too much Pokemon when I was younger.

I love email and IM and all that of the reasons you stated, but... Picking up the phone gets all of the necessary information to both parties involved several orders of magnitude f…

I agree, but I never see these kinds of posts stay up very long. If it gets too bad, it shouldn't be too hard to add some code that would accelerate their trip off the front page.

It's impossible to know what you'll need in the future. No one should be wasting too much time trying to figure it out. How could Zuckerberg -- or anyone, for that matter -- have p…

Not just PEP8-compliant. Some of these are just plain bad. The first one I was greeted with when I opened the site was: > print eval('+'.join(map(str, [1, 1]))) If I ever saw this …

I'm really not sure why this was posted without the link. Maybe it was just an accident. Here's the link to his review, though it's now over 10 years old: http://www.amazon.com/rev…

> What is Google's core business? Advertising. While this is true, I think Google understands it well enough that they take it a step further: growing internet usage as a whole. Go…