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I'm looking for a job in Canada (vancouver or toronto preferably) that would sponsor me as 'arranged employment'. I'm pretty great with C++ (4+ years), Lua. My focus has always bee…

Great advice. I'd add to those book recommendations 'The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master' as well, great and fun read from beginning to end and good to open at any …

Have you looked into CMake to alleviate your compilation woes? I recently started using it and its been very useful so far.

I'm 24 and I've been coding C++ for the past 4 years, it was my first language and remains the one I use the most, though I've used Ruby professionally most recently, I'm trying to…

Couldn't make the big "WELCOME TO FLYBYCHAT" left pane go away, so it felt like there was a lot of screen real state that was left unused. Also the HN lurker I was chatting with ra…

More reason to hope facebook goes down in flames, and the sooner the better.

"Thank you CrunchBase and _Charlise_ Rose" Thought I'd point out :)

Jobs wants to keep the walled garden pure of corruption. Says not to eat of the fruit of the tree of porn, lest the consumer lose their innocence. The serpent of webkit/safari temp…

What I've been wondering and am curious about is which of the straws is responsible for breaking the camel's back. Could they have done the same thing, but in a larger timeline and…

He lost me a bit earlier: "I will eliminate Lua for the same reason [is not a general purpose language], though it has found a niche in the gaming community." wat? And then on a co…

I had definitely tried that before, recall issuing a 'mkdir .mozilla/plugins' & moving a .so in there. Can't remember why I rolled that back and reinstalled it through apt thought.…

I went through a phase I tried installing everything under the sun and looked around quite a bit (the packages directly from adobe, different apt packages, random bash scripts I fo…

I've tried both the apt package and downloading directly from adobe, to be honest I don't remember if there was a difference in problems, or just the same set of them, either way i…

How did you install? 'sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree' ?

"It's more than possible that your hardware configuration is the cause" Its definitely not the hardware horsepower itself, as I have very good performance on 64 vista. I'm also run…

"Python falls in the middle of C and Lisp and thus is a useful comparison (and everyday-living) language." Its a shame Lua isn't more widely used / known that would be an even bett…

"deliver a decent Flash implementation on a mobile device before touting your mobile position." I wish they'd do the same for desktop too. Flash doesn't really 'run' on my 64 bit u…

One of the things you want to hit up right away after you get reacquainted is the boost library: http://www.boost.org/ If you use it well, it does a lot of heavy lifting, adds a lo…

For bonus points on first item: http://srm.sourceforge.net/

Wow. This is hands down the best explanation of unicode in general, but UTF-8 in particular I've seen by far. and I mean by FAR. Thank you so much for this link!

"It's impressive. It feels like BeOS, unlike Zeta which was had poor quality." I guess I should have clarified - I've never used BeOS either, or well, even seen it I think, so more…

Anyone ever used Haiku? And what were you mostly doing with it? What are the advantages if any [for that activity]? I've known about the project for quite a while, pretty icons and…

> And the tweets almost never present an interesting opinion. Could be worse, could be youtube comments. Now that I think about it, I bet they must have read those at one point too…