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Your question is lacking quite a bit of context. You haven't for example mentioned how much experience you have with the language, how much programming experience you have in gener…

I guess our experiences might vary with what happens to prototypes/first cut implementations. From my experience what starts off as a simple proof of concept/prototype that is done…

I will have to disagree on this, this advice is only good if your sole purpose is to make a quick buck. If you want to start a long term solid business than I suggest you treat peo…

I have to agree here, transparency is key, trust is a very important part of human relations. You build this by starting with a couple of tasks where you pay the subcontractors hou…

Very interesting read. I have to admit that I have been guilty of this self handicaping on more than one occasion. The self illusion of being able to achieve great things if you ju…

As some of the people in this thread have already suggested, the idea of taking a gap year is all about having a plan/purpose. Taking a year off just for the sake of it, is not wor…

I am really curious, can you go into a bit more detail as to what each those transitions meant for you, and how you went about doing them? For example what exactly the move from em…

Hello, as someone who shied away from regular IDEs to use Emacs for programming work, I would recommend that you start setting things up for some very specific need. As it was alre…

I have no intention of stopping. I guess my curiosity was more along the lines of whether it is worth it to dig deeper and learn more Java, or if it would be better to go for some …

Excuse my ignorance, but why would learning Android increase market value by more than say something like Ruby?

Hello, I have been working for close to 2 1/2 years as a Java developer, and seeing all the job postings on HN as of late, I have been wondering if it is wise to keep learning and …

In all honesty I can understand where you're coming from. However, there is a discrepancy as far as I'm concerned between what you're selling and how you're selling it. In this cas…

This is the exact same feeling that I'm getting from this announcement. To me this just feels like a publicity stunt, where Oracle is aiming to get a slice of the CentOS/RHEL marke…

Hmm, a good geocoder sounds a bit ambigous to me. As far as I can tell geonames has an API with both XML and JSON for getting longitude and latitude off of city names, so I am not …

When you say front end to MongoDB, what exactly are you thinking of? This makes me think of something along the lines of phpMyAdmin, are we on the same page here?

This sounds doable, shoot me an e-mail and we can see how simple is simple for you. :)

This actually sounds pretty interesting and I would really like to fiddle with this idea. The thing is right now it actually feels like biting off a bit more than we can chew. I mi…

While I do agree with what you said as a general statement, I have found quite a few sticking points in applying this to web applications. Firstly, I for one have seen very little …

Hello, I have been lurking HN for some time now, and have finally found an opportunity to make a contribution. A friend of mine is going to be starting her first programming job in…