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This is a very complicated thing to answer concisely, but I'll take a stab at it from a product development perspective. You know you're a good programmer if the things you build "…

Jedi, Rock Star

Great article. I've struggled with this for my entire career. I get bored after finishing a major project and am left with miscellaneous tasks. But I've found consulting gigs to be…

Unless you're working for yourself on your own product it's hard to find something you're 100% passionate about. But the funny thing about that is working for yourself is one of th…

If you want to break into the tech industry, the best thing you can do right now is just start building stuff. Think of a mobile app or a web app that has a simple purpose that you…

The new podcast app makes certain workflows impossible--like downloading a single podcast before taking a walk. Now it just says "preparing to download" indefinitely. By the time i…

I think they left out a zero

My boss has asked me to come up with an org chart for our organization. What are your recommendations for a _simple_ org chart for a small software-as-a-service company who's looki…

"...while Flash apps won’t run on the iPhone, any Flash app can easily be converted into an iPhone app." The title is misleading...

Working on a web crawler that tracks the associations between websites online. Currently working on the front-end which will, at first, simply list websites ordered by how many oth…

I usually go with programmer/web developer. It doesn't roll off the tongue as easy as hacker but the latter term has negative connotations among the majority of humans.

I like the minimal UI and the tree view is interesting. I would be interested in learning more about the background of this project but there's no "about" link anywhere.

Agreed about the need to sync to the web. If I was to undertake a project like this I would probably do it as a web app (to start) using the bleeding edge HTML 5 local storage stuf…

Scala! ... specifically using Actors for concurrency problems has been a bit of a revelation for me ... and the functional parts if you're not already familiar with FP ... and for …

Are you expecting Google to defy the US government? He is merely stating a fact: "...we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act..." How many of you are actually con…

Fair enough. I just fail to see the distinction between "semicolon insertion" and optional semicolons. Sounds to me like semicolon insertion is just a stupid way to implement an in…

You speak as if your words are law but really it is just your opinion. Modern languages are still being designed this way. For example semicolons are optional in Scala.

I disagree. I consider an interpreter that can figure things out on your behalf to be a more intelligent interpreter. It requires me to type less. The "hard to find bugs" pointed o…

I would love to hear an argument FOR "semicolon insertion" for a change. I only ever hear arguments against it. Personally I would prefer to avoid unnecessary line noise if the int…

My dislike of XML is pretty simple: it forces you to be more verbose. That is bad for the web. For instance is valid HTML. The XML equivalent is . Why is this a good idea, again?

My 2 cents. I am not "experienced" in that I haven't yet achieved my millions, but experience has told me "forcing" myself to continue hacking away when I'm clearly experiencing ph…

Interesting article but I am not convinced outward expressions of elitism have much of a correlation with one's academic background. In my experience, the most talented and creativ…