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Subjective in the sense that people are free to opine on those matters, but there will always be one approach that, based on empirical data, works, and one that doesn’t.

In 10 years I'll need to buy a new machine to replace the one I have now .

> If you want to know what's really going on come to the Philippines. Don't judge based on what the news says. You say this like we're such a beautiful country whose drinking water…

I feel for OP because I've gone through something similar. I was motivated by money because I was born poor and went through the stresses of work and starting up because I wanted t…

The study is very misleading. I was excited to read about some scientific breakthrough because I saw the link from Hacker News, but this one crucial fact gave it away: > the McMast…

I am pretty sure that in the Stanford CS curriculum, CS193P has pre-requisites that include introductory programming clases.

Hm. So since companies do hire from dev bootcamps, are the candidates quizzed about CS theory during the application process? It seems pretty standard to be asked about data struct…

> Working on a AAA game does not make you "the best." And neither does having more people talk about you. > If you want to be the best you have to work hard, and you have to fight,…

I'm from the Philippines, too. From my experience, you have better chances of getting a better pay AND work-life balance at a full-time job than in freelance sites (Elance, oDesk, …

Just an observation: Is there a particular reason why the sheep are flocking around the infrasound detector? First picture.

I personally choose to give Swift a chance. I think it sucks largely because Xcode 6 itself sucks, but that will improve over time.

I'm not sure it's right to compare it to the Python versioning issues. Apple can just break old Objective-C code for later versions of iOS/OS X if they wanted to. Also, you can loo…

There's a WWDC session where Apple designers use Keynote to prototype iOS apps. It's actually impressive--you can fake the animations and interactions to be really close to the rea…

Shame this is happening inside a company whose product I actually love. In any case, that rant about the salary--isn't the employee ultimately responsible for whether she or he is …

"I'd like to tell you about something I'm really excited about. It's called Android." My first reaction was, "Haha, no shit." And then it gave me goosebumps to realize how it's jus…

You should seriously consider going to the gym. It helped me build my confidence and the way I carry myself around strangers. Doesn't quite give you better communication skills but…

The link to the YouTube video of "The Mother of All Demos" is dead. I found another one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY

Nope, won't downvote, because depending on the team you're working with, you're right. I work in a company where I started off following the author's suggested actions for becoming…

But it can also be that in-game purchases and stickers and other things are only successful value propositions for a given demographic.