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What Lustig doesn't mention is that sugar is what your brain runs on. Eating too much sugar is not good for actual marathons but it works great for coding marathons.

Sorry, I deleted my stories as I felt they were revealing too much personal information. My last job I was using Ruby and Java doing back-office data munging stuff for a financial …

What did you do before?

After thinking about it for a moment, I guess I'm totally wrong. Guys who built an awesome app in 24 hours, then improved it and raised $10M during brief moments of sobriety in bet…

I call bullshit on you as I know everyone involved. They are great, but can you deny the part about jam bands and a history of drunk tweets by their engineers? There's a whole webs…

If you already are running a startup from your dorm, the main reason to stay in college is to meet women. Honestly, there is no easier venue, and the chance to have a captive audie…

That's pretty interesting. Do you have a cite? Android (the company) was essentially designed as something to sell to Google. I wonder if the guys at Android bypassed Schmidt becau…

Does Corona still compile the code on their servers?

Is game programming solving a problem? There is a game to be made, and the problem is that it hasn't been programmed yet.

Twitter is a unique case in that their engineers in 2009 were even worse than the ones at Pivotal. They still had outages every day, so how good could the "pivots" have been? But m…

This is an odd request for Hacker News. Everyone here knows that the liberal arts are stupid. Focus. If you have time to take courses outside of the CS department you should be usi…

The key to avoiding this is to stop thinking like a programmer, and start thinking like a sysadmin. A programmer will automate some tedious repetitive task, and then boast about th…

Wonder what changed? They generally do a mediocre job at best, so their clients didn't renew their overpriced consulting contracts.

Actually there seem to be a good number of jobs in Pittsburgh, but I know nothing about the natural environs that way. In California, if you work in Silicon Valley you can always l…

Why do you think that? I don't believe there is any legal precedent surrounding autonomous vehicles.

I've tried many things but nothing has helped more than turning off the internet.

I'm not Asian but my family changed their family name upon immigration. Nobody since has ever used any "traditional" first names, either. This is because the language of my ancesto…

Kids aren't stupid and they are mischevious. Little kids in Brooklyn already mess around with older people by yelling "pedo" at them. I've seen more than one dark British comedy wh…

Does it really make any difference? I grew up in an anachronistic small town and had at least 50% male teachers from 1st grade on up. I can't say I paid attention to any of my teac…

To each his own. Personally, the birthday reminders are the only reason I use Facebook. Also, each year, every attractive woman I've met in the past 4 years wishes me happy birthda…

What is a concrete example of saying "you're welcome" where it leads to the oppression you're describing?

It certainly doesn't sound like good management practice! Why not? I worked for silicon valley startups for 15 years and not once did I meet a "product manager" who did anything wo…

Tradesmen provide their own tools if they are independently employed. If they are employed directly through a big firm, the firm often buys all their equipment for them, including …