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> There has been tremendous progress in both frameworks and languages over the last decade. If you can't see that then, well, I don't really know what else to say, other than to pe…

List 10 distinct careers where programming is a fundamental skill.

Perhaps if more programmers were working on a solution to cancer, instead of a social webapp to allow people to share photos of their dogs... Not to mention the number of programme…

BASIC worked just fine as a first language for most people who grew up in the 80s. But as I said earlier in the thread. We shouldn't teach them programming, or specific languages. …

Agree. Kids need to learn logical thought processes and problem solving. They don't need to know how to 'program'. How do we even know 'programming' will be a relevant skill in 30 …

hint: You don't need 48gb ram to run a social bookmarking site.

In the example, the current hosting is $24k/yr. If that can be slashed to $2.4k/yr, you've saved $21.6k a year in hosting. For $21.6k/yr I'd say it's worth a week or two re-archite…

Well, my own data point is Mibbit. And I can tell you I certainly don't spend that much on hosting. Still, easy to criticize without knowing the full facts...

...then don't use magento. What I said was that for the functionality pinboard provides, and the number of users using it, the hosting costs are extremely high. If the hosting cost…

That's an amazing amount of money to be spending on hosting. Should be spending nearer $200/mo total for hosting a service like this with that number of users IMHO.

tl;dr; = It's an array with a few utility methods, but can also hold 'infinite' things like "all the positive even numbers". Not terribly useful imho and certainly doesn't live up …

XHR was introduced many years after js was extremely popular. Also XHR doesn't add anything technically. The same thing can be achieved with dynamically adding tags, or using an if…

Imagine a world where instead of writing books, authors spent forever needlessly inventing new languages to write them in.

BS. Syntax is exactly like fashionable clothes. It's irrelevant to how warm your clothes are. The number of developer years wasted coming up with yet another programming language o…

I think the problem was they couldn't find enough people who wanted to use it for free, to bother trying to charge some of them with a premium package.

> Conde Nast buys reddit, and people predict a train wreck. Has it not been a train wreck in terms of profitability? Or is Reddit making a few hundred million in profit nowadays?

The question is, does growing a loss making company make sense? Or should you solve the monetization issue first. Reddit doesn't need more money, it needs to be brave, slap up some…

From the other posted article it looks like it will make it easier for them to start selling it off... "The move comes after Conde talked to several investors about selling off a c…

> Also, anyone think 200mil is a bit cheap for reddit? Are they profitable yet after 6 years? I'd say 200mil is ridiculously expensive. But then we live in an age where a location …

"drag stickers to upvote" sounds like it would very very quickly get boring. Also IMHO infinite scrollbars make for a terrible confusing and broken user experience. Nice design apa…

OK football was a bad choice. A better one would be learning about history. Some people enjoy learning history. Some don't.