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THIS. Especially Clojure. If you want to become a better JavaScript programmer, definitely dabble in Clojure.

Office politics. Culture. The fact that it doesn't matter what the company says their culture is and that their culture is defined by the behaviors that they do and don't allow in …

Can you imagine the echo in one of those things? Plus, for the price of one of those, I'd be tempted to pick up a used storage container and renovate that.

There's no reason to be apologetic. The fact of the matter is that there are two types of employees, those who work and those who have a job. Employees who work are creating value,…

They go work for a mid-sized insurance company in the midwest.

jklh, especially handy when you use plugins like NERDTree. I use vim with a couple dozen plugins as my main text editor every day.

I'm going to give some blind advice. I've never been laid off nor have I done consulting - I'm not speaking from personal experience here. No matter which route you decide to go, w…

If you have absolutely no experience programming, start with Python. There are three things to learn when programming: 1) language syntax, 2) concepts (conditionals, logic gates, l…

I like how the logo uses a red gas can. Diesel fuel is actually goes in a yellow gas can.

The S in 35S stands for Starscream.

You say that as if a twin engine plane is safer. Twin engine airplanes should be treated the same as a single engine aircraft. Most small twin engine airplanes typically cannot fly…

I had feeling this was going to happen. While I don't live in one of the metro areas on the map, I recently had an order that I received the next day, although I chose 2-day shippi…

And the importance of it. Saying NO often allows you to say YES when it matters.

The industry needs more people like you, passionate and eager to learn. Start networking. You never know who you might meet. You have a better chance at landing your first job thro…

You're probably won't be out of the woods for under $60k.

Bored is the word you're looking for. We have all been there. Sometimes it gets better, sometimes it doesn't. Some people are barely capable of doing the same thing day in and day …

I bought and read this book soon after it was originally published. This, by far, was my favorite interview.

If you're interested in looking at Clojure, checkout Clojure for the Brave and True. http://www.braveclojure.com/

Yeah, I was tempted to pull the trigger on that. I recently acquired a Dell Precision M4400 for a good deal and put an SSD in it, so I'm using that with Xubuntu as my primary now.

I saw this deal recently - $399 Refurbished: Lenovo T420 Intel Core i5 2520M 2.5GHz 8GB / 128GB SSD http://www.neweggflash.com/Product/9SIA3TX2064547?icid=WP_0_... Edited: price.

This is the agency behind the site - http://www.webeventsglobal.com

Apple's Investor Relations website is also built with ColdFusion - http://investor.apple.com/sec.cfm - which is mostly likely not built by a consulting service. I'd bet that neithe…

I would emerge myself into the world of data science and big data. It's the new frontier and is where the web was 15 years ago. The trend I've seen with web development is that it'…

It's interesting to see that Gosu was announced here two years ago without a single comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3671054

Play applications can be written in Java or Scala. http://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.0/JavaHome