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You could just use blogs and websites like Hacker News, twitter, etc to advertise yourself, I personally ignore any emails which are sent to me advertising some kind of product. Un…

Continue. Everybody has doubts at some point in their career, should I pursue this course, should I get rid of this one. This is not failure to launch, rather, it is failure to fly…

Getting started is normally the hardest part, I remember giving up on java because I couldn't get the darn compiler to work. Hello world never made it to my console :(

It would most likely scare them off, if they were coming from little to no programming experience, but I agree. In fact, I think that what you said applies to most languages, learn…

But remember this, no matter how "artsy" and beautiful your website is, make sure you are firstly, pitching to the right targets, secondly, make sure it works and thirdly, make sur…

Because I already know PHP. The experience would be different for someone new to programming but I have no reason to learn Ruby at the moment.

My experience with PHP has not been as terrible as most rails users make it out to be. Once I learned the PHP syntax I got flying with it, I didn't have a single problem. I just do…

And that is why I won't be learning ruby any time soon. I think I'll stick to PHP.

Right: first of all, congratulations on having the mental capacity required to get this far with your coding. You have undoubtedly come far from your days using Hello World. The fi…

Three years of debugging and writing code and I have never seen an @ used, I would consider getting rid of the key but I need the darned thing for logging in to my hotmail :(

The javascript console on -webkit (Chrome)is a godsend for me, because if you have a JQuery bug, nothing at all works, so instead of being able to do one large update you have to d…

I use an echo'd statement or the "or die" function when using PHP, I just find it easier for me, as I am used to the error messages. PHP at compile time has it's own built in error…

I use Bancaja mainly, it is a Spanish bank which recently integrated with another larger one, Bankia. The transition was awful, I didn't have access to my card for 6 days, then I d…

As someone who has been hearing about Clojure for a long time, but largely ignoring it due to lack of need, I enjoyed reading your git :) Thanks for the post.

I agree, I checked it out and there didn't seem to be anything wrong with it. Edit: I also like that it supports different formats for every field, I feel less pushed in to perfect…

Why could the user not let the system know what environmental issues were involved? Provide users with an input field with an optional brief description. Not only will this allow t…

I had them for my high school statistics exams, I remember having one which just said: "Hypothesis testing via the binomial tables of probabi" and then presumably they ran out of c…

Currently, waiting for the coursera cryptography course and I just began working for a web design company in Preston, England. Entry level wage, but good experience :) Although, I'…

Pottermore hasn't opened the next chapter? Get there first and get your site out. 10,000 followers is more than most startups get.

I am a 19 year old programmer, I began in 2009, learning PHP via debugging a broken PHP script for a friend. It took me a long time, days, as the script was 2,300 lines long and I …