Obviously i wasn't advocating the opposite extreme of telling a kid to do thing just to 'fit in', kids should be encouraged to have a healthy curiosity towards their interests. My point was that parents should have in…
The lack of normal social life from being a geek in the eyes of other kids will likely do the kid more damage then the benefit he will receive from being a child computer wiz. Let kids be kids and don't try to make them…
This is particularly annoying because it would appear from that statement that google is sexists and racist. Start with 'mostly male' anyone and everyone in the tech world knows that most software engineers are male. So…
No offense, but your case sounds somewhat similar to patent trolls. "Spread the word" is your trade mark, huh?! What's next you guys gonna trade mark the word "Dear" and sue anyone who starts their email with that word?
Great response Igor. This is pretty much how i try to stay up to date. The thing i find frustrating is when you finally become really good at technology often there is already a new out there which you are totally…
I personally employ other developers for side projects and they get paid significantly below what i get paid at my 9-5. If i was dishonest i could pretty easily pull off this scam. Not as extreme as doing 0 but i could…
Problem is as soon as you buy it you lose money. The reason being that if you want to sell it back you must go to a dealer he will low ball you and you will have a hard time getting the actual value of the gold. It is…
Fair comparison, but the difference is that we generally can get the hammers and saws free online. Choosing to pay for these products shows that they are superior to the other free ones which are available to us, and…
JetBrains make the best IDEs on the market, their products always surpass my expectations. I use their python IDE and the php IDE both fantastic products that are well worth the money(and i HATE paying for software). No…
Examples usually show you how do things like a parrot, but you don't get the idea of why these things happen as they do without some documentation.
As someone who actually conducts interviews i must agree with you. I recently interviewed a girl who was actually very talented but her resume looked very much like the one in the link (maybe she actually got it off of…
Obviously i wasn't advocating the opposite extreme of telling a kid to do thing just to 'fit in', kids should be encouraged to have a healthy curiosity towards their interests. My point was that parents should have in…
The lack of normal social life from being a geek in the eyes of other kids will likely do the kid more damage then the benefit he will receive from being a child computer wiz. Let kids be kids and don't try to make them…
This is particularly annoying because it would appear from that statement that google is sexists and racist. Start with 'mostly male' anyone and everyone in the tech world knows that most software engineers are male. So…
No offense, but your case sounds somewhat similar to patent trolls. "Spread the word" is your trade mark, huh?! What's next you guys gonna trade mark the word "Dear" and sue anyone who starts their email with that word?
Great response Igor. This is pretty much how i try to stay up to date. The thing i find frustrating is when you finally become really good at technology often there is already a new out there which you are totally…
I personally employ other developers for side projects and they get paid significantly below what i get paid at my 9-5. If i was dishonest i could pretty easily pull off this scam. Not as extreme as doing 0 but i could…
Problem is as soon as you buy it you lose money. The reason being that if you want to sell it back you must go to a dealer he will low ball you and you will have a hard time getting the actual value of the gold. It is…
Fair comparison, but the difference is that we generally can get the hammers and saws free online. Choosing to pay for these products shows that they are superior to the other free ones which are available to us, and…
JetBrains make the best IDEs on the market, their products always surpass my expectations. I use their python IDE and the php IDE both fantastic products that are well worth the money(and i HATE paying for software). No…
Examples usually show you how do things like a parrot, but you don't get the idea of why these things happen as they do without some documentation.
As someone who actually conducts interviews i must agree with you. I recently interviewed a girl who was actually very talented but her resume looked very much like the one in the link (maybe she actually got it off of…