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The article explains why.

Assuming that revenue scales with app quality...

Just coincidentally, these happen to be the exact attributes the author believes he has! How fortunate!

He's clearly trying to avoid getting swiftboated, which is a very real risk.

What do I have to roll to make my saving throw?

> This really reads like a "WAHH! C++ isn't Python or Java!" post. only by someone that barely passed his C++ class in college.

I agree with many of your points, but I think that last bit is unnecessarily harsh.

You are theoretically correct.

But: can you name a platform where a null pointer is not represented by zeros in binary?

The core problem here is that recruiters are adding so little. It's fairly simple to get a great job without involving a recruiter. Why not cut out the middleman?

Someone should make a T-shirt that says "I'm an outlier data point."

>If it were a dramatic difference in lifespan...

Maybe. But lefties could easily die, say, 10 years earlier on average, in theory, and still have plenty of time to pass on their genes.

Too many typos to be real.

Weird...

The site is for entrepreneurs, mainly. As such, this article is completely relevant.

Maybe Rails isn't that popular here. (Personally I'm not crazy about it.) And Rails docs aren't really "news", are they?

Maybe, or maybe they're just using it as a numeric reference. Something has to be 100, right?

I don't think they're even competing with each other. And they've said as much.

And if you're saving up the money, you may decide a $500 computer is just great.

I'm not sure what the questions imply. Most code is not going to have a "yes" answer to all of these, and shouldn't.

If I'm writing a 100-line python script to process a text file, I'm not going to worry too much about making it run as quickly as possible, say.

I remember reading that one thing that separates us from other primates is our (relative) mastery of our emotions.

The writing, and plot, was great. But it's not a happy book, is it?

>The old adage (not mine) is that 99% of the time operating system bugs are actually bugs in your program, and the other 1% of the time they are still bugs in your program, so look harder, dammit.

I agree in general, but... I have run into a few platform bugs in my time. For example, at one point realloc in the standard C library that came with Visual Studio would break if you (IIRC) allocated a bunch of blocks that were over 16k, and realloced them to be smaller than 16k. And I had to figure that out the hard way, because the bug was making our code crash.

Also, on most game consoles, I'd say about a quarter of the time you think something is a platform bug, it really is. Seriously. Compiler bugs and SDK bugs just aren't all that uncommon there.

Man, that was a painful book to read. I winced through the whole thing.

Although, in their defense, what do you think most legitimate support emails from actual customers look like? This can't have been far off.

But still, their security process has a hole big enough to drive a truck through.

Party pooper.

There's nothing wrong with learning and using C. It may not be your favorite flavor, but it's a perfectly valid and reasonable choice.

>Obviously, whoever gave a green light for the purchase must have thought so.

You could be right, or there could be other motivations. For example, maybe they thought the company had a one-in-five chance of being worth ten times that much in two years, so they figured it was worth the price.

Oops, I meant FORTRAN. I learned it for a college class, and the next semester they wised up and took it off the required list.

> It can OFTEN be in BOTH your AND your client's best interest to lie.

Hmmm... this sounds like a slippery slope to me.

I know this is an old article, but I think it's interesting in contrast to the admission by Sony in their annual report that they've lost $3 billion selling PS3s.

The Nintendo business model makes a lot more sense to me.

I know what you mean about the "locking the doors" bit. Our minivan locked our toddler in once (he was in his carseat), and we had to call 911 and get the firemen to break in.

>You can bridge amazingly large gaps of logic if you just keep the plot moving.

I seem to remember the bus leaping an amazingly large gap in a bridge at one point, if that's what you mean. ;)

Sad and disappointing.

But: if they can successfully outsource their dissertation for £100, maybe the system is broken, too?

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