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Yes I've often maintained that we could just drill a hole in the middle of Australia and dump the worlds nuclear waste in it. Its the perfect spot, no ground water (if you make sur…

I find that one hard to believe - I can't believe Bill would open himself up to cartel laws, the others however :-) Though that would explain a few things

Wow, that's the bit you don't hear in the papers. Ever thought of writing a book with this stuff?

Thanks folks, it's really interesting to hear the road less travelled. Any others?

Thanks for sharing, I'm pleased to hear you recommend going to school, it seems there's an exceptional few who can make it without a degree. I'd thought there'd be more, maybe they…

Indeed, and you could do the old trick of making a ram disk for your compiles

I have to ask - any stories you can tell?

That's great - did not having a degree ever cause you problems?

oh, I just had a look and the base model doesn't have an SSD - I'd really not consider developing without an SSD any more. It will work but compile times are slower, how much I cou…

lol, I think you may be an exception :-), kudos to you by the way

Are you sure? - from the site https://support.apple.com/en-is/HT4432 Mac mini (Late 2014) Mac mini (Late 2014) does not have user-installable RAM. You can configure the memory in y…

I'd get 8GB, I do have trouble now and then with the 4GB, but only because of the VM (I have to reboot), 8GB will give you a longer lifetime I think (I didn't think you could upgra…

I use a macbook air mid 2011. 1.7 Ghz i5, 4GB 133MHz DDR3, 128GB SSD, intel HD graphics 3000 384 MB memory, and it works fine. I run Yosemite on it and develop iOS apps. I actually…

There's a thread here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9163921 about differences between cs grads and non cs grads as devs. Which got me to thinking are there many devs who don…

That was what a degree was for in the old days - it was to teach you how to learn. There are other paths nowadays I suppose, but a degree is a tick from an institution (who are exp…

I was self taught then did a CS degree, so have a foot in both camps. Some of the things I learnt in the degree which I never would have learnt by myself were (and others have ment…

Managers who hire specialists in a field (i.e. me) then proceed to tell them how to work. It's solvable, but the cost is me taking on the risk of ignoring managers and proceeding, …

i don't want to rain on your parade but you do know there are a gagillion of these around

I looked at flex/air a year or so ago for the same requirements - ended up using Delphi. It was uncertain at the time whether flex/air would be around (it may be different now), al…

until someone comes up with a way to determine what is bad versus good then that is perhaps the best there is. I use companies to do all sorts of things for me - watching software …

...or come up with a better way to download and install software, oh wait a minute Apple did that and made a billion dollar industry downloading apps.