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So you want to give clients direct access to your database?

Reinventing the wheel for lulz...

College doesn't cost that much. I go to Texas Tech. 4-5K a semester for 8 semesters is 50k. A starting dev makes 50-60k.It's pretty easy to pay it off.

This is awesome. Someone port it to my circa 1994 cobol compiler and I'll be set.

I program and I'm also studying music. Several of the programmers at my workplace play music. I would say %50 of my team. I think music theory and programming are very similar. The…

PHP doesn't suck. It runs the internet. It's possible to write crappy code in any language.

Isn't this obvious?

50-60%. I'm an intern though.

I never thought of this. It's good

If you sanitize every input then I think you will be ok. You just have to get in the habit of always running your safe() function on every variable that comes in a POST or GET. I w…

When you say Java I immediately think of all the crappy programmers in my CS program who would choose Java as their favorite language even when it would be the worst possible choic…

If it has to be updated on every page load I don't think there's anything you can do...I may be wrong I'm sure someone on HN will have some performance tricks. You can generate you…

Learn to play an instrument. I've always found that to be a rewarding waste of time.

Take a vacation. Be frugal with your money and you should never have to work again if you can live on 30k a year.

I wouldn't spend it or invest or anything. Leave in the bank or a CD and just feel secure enough to leave your job if you start hating it. The economy is bad.

I think it depends how much money you have to spend. If you have money then see about finding a developer. If you don't have money and you don't expect investment then I would say …

I would get cracking on web development if I were you. You can definitely do it alone for a while. That way you're not at the mercy of a programmer and you will have learned a usef…

Buy a guitar. Learn to play it.

Right. So Groupon probably didn't go around hush hush. I agree with the post above about execution. It's not about being first it's about being the best.

If keeping it secret is that big of deal it's probably going to fail anyway. If something is so easy to copy that you can't tell anyone then it's not worth pursuing. IMO.

I'm interning with a company that is a COBOL shop. It took me months to make the transition from "normal languages". I don't think it's worth learning honestly unless you get a job…

I'm sure it would make you a better programmer. Using tools that were abandoned by their company 10 years ago teaches one to be humble and to appreciate the little things in life.

You can't be a web developer unless you can code. I think a good exercise would be copying a website. When I say copy I mean the whole thing front end and back end. Start with some…

You really don't know bad programming until you have spent some time in a 50000 line cobol program. I'd post some crap I work on every day but I don't want to make anyone cry. Neve…

If you really need technical people you're going to have to pay them unless you've got something amazing built so far. Or you're going to have to bring in cofounders and give them …