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Look for mentorship. Remember that no matter how you code, there are always both better and worse ways of doing it. Don't get too polarized about the language you start out with. A…

That's more or less what I wanted! Would have hoped for a weekly thing, but close enough.

I happen to be a commuter myself. Sounds like a good time to catch up. I may try and do this from now on.

Doesn't sound too old-fashioned to me, given the popularity of online radio. Still, I'm not sure I'd be able to focus on stuff if I had radio on all the time.

Yes, they're not really the let-me-explain type. I wouldn't ask about this if I didn't think it's a question worth answering.

I know that much, but when socializing, I still want to be able to not be like "huh?" when someone brings up, say, Russia's suspension from the G8/G7 over their annexation of Crime…

It's minor, but it would be nice to be able to drop the subject more often when it's unneeded, like being able to say "Raining" instead of "It's raining". Some latin languages have…

As in, a way to keep up with stuff that is relevant in the long term, like wars, while discarding flavor-of-the-week scandals and such. Any periodic retrospectives you follow, stuf…

I don't see why a time crunch is an appropriate reason to ask for help. As a junior, there's little responsibility you have to assume w.r.t. the success of the project. If it fails…

I'd go for a good practical book about operating system programming.

Don't know about ReactJS, but I'd stay away from Angular, especially since Angular 2.0 will break compatibility anyway. I'd probably go for Backbone, Underscore, Zepto and/or Boots…

Seems to be here to stay, but I can't quite figure out why. The only thing I liked about it when I tried it out was the gotool, but it was hardly a reason for me to switch, given t…

Because if they don't they'll be out-competed by those that do?

Are you implying that young, poor black people know better?

What about http://www.glassdoor.com/ ? It features company reviews that you can read.

Are you being serious? Valid criticism isn't the same as hating on the playa', to use your apparent vernacular. Many would consider criticism to be a considerate act and an opportu…

I agree with it being arguably unethical, but mostly because it's a business model that tries to appease two sides (the techies with ideas, and the investors), which, in my opinion…

I agree with this, but I don't think it even has to be a startup. Big enterprises may also provide good learning environments, possibly even with experienced developers/marketers/w…

There are ways around it: using the code for the key directly north-west of the problematic character, and if that's a bad character go further, maybe wrap around, or try to follow…

The rest of us could also make up our own password generating techniques as well, and have c@td0g11!el8oo8, c@td0g11!no5@m@ etc. el8oo8 is google backwards - but coming up with a w…

So what this site is essentially selling is a single run of a random number generator printed on a piece of plastic and a 3-step process?

Meh, going by the quality of films based on real life stories as of late, I really wouldn't care to see a movie based on this, it would probably butcher the characters.

I just dump it somewhere (OneTab extension for web pages, random folders for stuff, note-taking for anything else). Most of it I'll never need again (and probably look online for i…

+1 for the nut-scratching tip. Worked wonders.

>Then what will? So you assume that TV (80% crap), movies (pure entertainment, excluding documentaries, which are also mostly crap anyway), books (60% crap) and articles (90% assho…