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For web, front-end, or mobile apps (excluding games), I agree math is not necessary. These type of apps rarely uses math, they simply streamline data and present it on the screen. …

I do agree the "noun" vs "verb" analogy when classes are taught are horrible..actually the way classes are taught in general are just confusing. Ultimately, classes are about code …

Although it is impressive that an app like this can be created in such few lines of code, I think it is a bad precedent as a programmer to have a goal to write as least as many lin…

In what ways is RoR superior to asp.net (besides the fact it is not microsoft?) RoR is still it it's relatively infancy, has security issues, is significantly slower, and good luck…

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How is your diet and exercise? Cut out any sugar and caffeine, avoid high processed foods (especially white bread and soda) and try to exercise at least 30 minutes daily. Do you ta…

I've used AFNetworking pre-iOS7 and it's been a godsend. However with the advent on NSURLSession, I don't see the need to have a 3rd party wrapper to do network calls anymore. Alth…

I use firefox mainly for hierarchical vertical tabs (tree style tab plugin). I often have up to 50 tabs open at once, which is unmanageable in ie/chrome. Also session manager is am…

Kind of reminds me of the movie "Taking of Pelham 123", where a stunt is created so that someone can profit by shorting the stock market. I wonder who made out on this one.

I agree that home ownership is not a good investment. Between mortgage interest, property taxes, home owners insurance, and maintenance, the ROI will be negative. Not to mention mo…

This is the concept of affirmative action at it's core. Do we base admission partly on demographics instead of merit? On one hand it may help promote the minority, though there are…

As others have mentioned, increasing units without increasing infrastructure will only make things worse. NYC is great because of its transportation, subways for intra-city and rai…

As a lead developer that is involved in new hires, I can give you my perspective. We generally don't hire remote workers. If I did consider hiring for a remote position, it would o…

The solution I use is to not use storyboards. Although storyboards have some nice features, they don't work well in large projects. Merge commits are the big problem. The storyboar…

Hacking stuff together from stackoverflow might be faster initially, but later on the product will encounter severe quality issues. Learning the fundamentals and foundations of a t…

I'm not sure if this was similar to your business model, but there is a site called cinderellawine.com that does daily deals for wines and does pretty well. I had a co-worker that …

I was just curious. I would hope RoR would be able to handle more than 60 requests per minute. Nowadays I don't bother with manual replicated servers, cloud servers handle a lot of…

Good points in the slide. A question through, why have 2 web server and two database servers? Was it for performance or redundancy reasons?

One of the points the author makes, is that static typing improves code maintainability and refactoring. I've used both static and dynamic languages. When I was younger I preferred…

It depends on the scenario. Web services or user interfaces accepting user input should be validated. However, in deeper code, it is better to let the system throw an exception and…

Drupal has it purposes, however I wouldn't use it for anything custom. I have a friend that runs a small web site business (mom & pop shop). He makes most of the sites in drupal, h…

Well, xcode is such a memory hog that an air is impractical. With 4gb of ram, xcode runs so poorly its not worth it. With 8gb or ram, you can BARELY run xcode, don't bother have an…

.net and java aren't unpopular because of their compiled nature. They are certainly much more performant and development lifecycle is quicker. The problem is their licensing fees. …

How many hours did it take you to write the book? From an ROI perspective, if it took you 100 hours to write the book and your rate is $100/hour, you would need to make $10,000 to …

ah ok, that makes sense. It would be nice to see the histograms for each major to see the IQ ranges