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It does not make it easy to access the mapbox library API directly. It claims there is a way, but it's not documented.

Remote drove me insane. I was younger then though, and if I did it again I would make sure I had a seperate office room. Living in a flat of rowdy people was a bad idea.

I'm a Python developer with a Linux background looking to develop my resume over the next 1.5 years prior to a move to Europe. I'm interested in what advice you could offer. I'm at…

XML Doesn't necessarily make it easier. Maintaining and changing things down the road is better. wxPython doesn't have XML examples for every widget and it does make trying new thi…

I'm looking at moving to Europe from New Zealand in December/January. I'm wanting to develop an income stream from software development that could support me financially. This need…

A very good point. Landing a non-web gig seems more daunting to me. In part, this may be because even small companies have websites whereas in the areas that I want to go into I wo…

Most freelancers seem to end up doing web development, database consultancy, or something in mobile to my (very anecdotal) knowledge. I'm less interested in the web and mobile unle…

Participation would probably result in learning more. Some have said they find themselves spending too much time checking for answers though. On the subject of the Cone of Learning…

I was at a Polytechnic for my degree. It is pretty much a uni, just doesn't have the prestige. The lecturers are as good and have taught at universities in the past. I say this as …

Actually, I just found something which looks like a good solution for developers: http://tagmask.com/ . It allows developers to share not just posts, but code snippets as well. Fil…

HN isn't so much a movement in the content industry, but a very specialized aggregator. It certainly is one of the ways I try to provide myself with good reading material so it doe…

I too have to second the dancing. It's lots of fun and it throws you out of your comfort zone in a good way. It'll force you to develop socially and once you start to 'get' the dan…

One thing to consider is that the usability and maturing of the mainstream tech has helped it's easy adoption by people who otherwise wouldn't be bothered. I'd say the same thing w…

I don't think the Alpha geeks are failing. I do think that computer literacy has increased as younger generations have grown up with technology and also, because a lot of smart alp…

Hmm: "direct from our Browser, like we have since the dawn of the internet". I'm young, and the internet existed when I was born, but I don't think there was a web in the internet'…

“Create a window with a table view, and then when someone clicks a button, add an entry to the table view” The thing is, even the above has logic "then when someone clicks". A lot …

I've been finding that in order to motivate myself for programming I have to not think of it in terms of, " sigh , a basic GUI front end for MySQL....". I have to make myself ident…

Interesting how the brain is "much more active than during reasoning with a complex problem." I think we have found de-focusing etc can help anyway. For instance, often when workin…

No.... :) I hear fake 25 yr old female analyst profiles on Facebook work well. :)