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The L.A. freeway system is not about L.A. It's about Southern California. Comments that suggest public transportation don't take into account the unique layout of SoCal. Here are j…

First sentence: "Did we not give you an offer? Did you reject an offer?" Third sentence: "If I remember right and we did reject you..." --------- Where do I even begin with this.

After reading all these (good) comments, I thought I'd go to SO now and try and pitch in and answer a question or two in my domain of expertise. You know...give back to the communi…

Do you expect lawyers or doctors to work for $20/hr? How about plumbers and electricians? But you expect a competent developer to work for $20/hr?

A couple of thousand? 9k won't even allow you to retire in Afghanistan. :-)

And there's a reason why Google is hiding or manipulating their numbers. They're poor. If they were good, you know darn well they'd be bragging about them. So they play tricks and …

I like the way you commented on his comment.

I understand the problem. I just don't give it any validity. The renters think their wishes and desires to live in a specific area are more important than other people who wish to …

It's called supply and demand. It's called life. Things change. The world doesn't revolve around families that "shouldn't be uprooted and have their lives thrown into disorder". If…

We have a reasonably regulated market. What we don't have is a system where people get to live where they want to live without regards to what they can afford. SF renters need to b…

And replace the free market with what? Communism? Where people like you try to show your brilliance at dictating how things "should be"? GTFO.

Fair enough. Then they can go to medical school. Or law school. Or be an accountant. Or an investment banker. They could take up the trades (electricians, plumbers, carpentry). May…

Yet another thread full of HNers sitting back and contemplating various ways to take other people's money like a Soviet central planning committee. Can you fuckers stop worrying ab…

Who gives a shit where they "want" to live. I'd like to live on the upper east side in Manhattan. Time for them to move to a place they can afford and stop the whining. I hear Detr…

Because it's free. Or they learned it over the years (and began with it, because it's free). IntelliJ is only $199, yet "professional" developers insist on using Eclipse. Like, $19…

>I don't see how anyone with practical experience developing commercial software could write something like this. Exactly. Using IntelliJ "holds me back", but if I bust out vim, so…

I normally just lurk, but I signed in just to upvote him. Still laughing...

I'm torn on this. I get what quanticle is saying, that Big-O is very important. I've developed an appreciation for it even if I didn't take CS in college (I took the redheaded bast…

Lol!! You're killing me. I need to work tomorrow and you're gonna have me up all night thinking how to optimize this thing. It's only 5 lines of code. Hashtable, huh? I don't like …

That's the $64,000 question. If I knew the answer, that would be my startup. It's a tough problem. It almost makes one beg for some sort of one-off certification (bar exam?) so we …

Then please accept my apologies. I enjoyed the anagram thing as it forced me into looking into it.

"In my experience, when we are programming on the job, we're given the problem and we have time to think about it. We have time to research possible solutions, we have time to try …

HN seems to lack reply links in some messages so I need to answer you here. "If you can't check an anagram given the definition of an anagram and the programming language of your c…

Since a reply link isn't available for spacemanaki's comment, I'll stick it here: "The purpose of a question like this, and of the classic FizzBuzz question, is to be a lightweight…

I happened to have a conversation with someone about this recently. Software developer: the career where you study to get the job, toss much of that away when you actually do the j…