TMK

If you do not want competition then find an idea where there is no products already, but this will be quite hard as there is so many companies already making products and lots of em.

If you want to compete which might be fun and drive you to make your service/product better and better everyday. Then do that and try to survive.

One thing, run your code through debugger after successful compilation with warnings set as errors. If your code does not compile when the warnings are set as errors, then fix them. Afterwards run your code in a debugger. Do this as often as you can.

Unit testing is checking that function returns the correct data in different scenarios. This can be easily done with unit testing functions for your language.

For example C preprocessor macros I use for unit testing.

#define equal(a,b) printf("%X == %X = %s\n", a, b, (a == b) ? "true" : "false");

#define diff(a,b) printf("%X != %X = %s\n", a, b, (a != b) ? "true" : "false");

Has the news.ycombinator.com open on a tab in my chrome and check out the news about every ten minutes when I am on the pc to see if anything interesting has popped up.

Can write easily few thousands of lines of code in a day if I really want to do that, but SLOC is not good metric like others have already said. One reason for this is that you can write much code, but is it worth it when you could possibly do the same thing with way less code.

They cover their tracks with p2p, tor, Virtual Private Networks.

They use denial of service attacks and some of them have bot nets to do that.

Most of their hacks are SQL injections, though they probably have some more advanced hackers available.

I agree almost with everything you said, except I forgot to mention in my comment that the order I listed the languages would be good way to learn them.

Though about PHP. I don't see it as useless language if you learn Python first. One thing I have noticed is that PHP hosting services are offered more than for Python, which makes it kinda easy in my perspective to use PHP for web development. PHP does offer everything you need for web development in the standard libraries, I have never had need for using any of the existing frameworks even though they make MVC easier.

You can always write desktop applications with PHP if your really want. Look at something like PHP-GTK.

To learn programming with python he should head to the python documents page. http://docs.python.org/py3k/tutorial/index.html

To learn programming with PHP he should head to the PHP manual. http://www.php.net/manual/en/

To learn C or C++ I suggest on reading the standards, even though they might be somewhat hard to understand, but they have the best information available on those languages.

For C http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/WG14/www/docs/n1256.pdf For C++ http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2010/n309...

I just open the text editor and start writing code. The amount of planning depends on how complex I think the project actually is.

0 unread emails if my spam box does not count.

C ISO/IEC 9899 - 1999 Standard is my favourite piece of documentation.

Audio books are nice, if the person speaks really clearly on them.

black hat would be hacking websites and adding those links to he hacked websites. :)

Just a stupid idea. Get those applicants to write punch of functions which can be used on the development of the product. Give them specification of the function and they should be able to write it. Hire the one who's function is the best. xD

It was 96 and I was 6 year old. I built offline pages, by modifying websites in the web after I found that I can see the html source code. Though back then I didn't know how to read yet so it was more about testing out how the layout looks nice instead of the content. Would still have the pages if my really old laptop's hard drive would still work.

It is not great way to gather information about illnesses because when those people googling for information about illness go actually to meet the doctors they tend to know their illness better than the doctor when the doctor in reality knows it better than non-trained sick person. This is already happening in here and it's making the job of real doctors harder because they have to prove the patients information wrong.

Though yes this might create cheaper option for basic health care in the US where it is not already paid by taxes.

Freenode IRC network has several language discussion channels and people are quite helpful in them.

public boolean CmpSquareOfAgeToYear(int age, int year) {

    if(age * age == year) {

       return true;

    } else {

       return false;

    }

}

Have to say that was nice documentary.

From www.artofasm.com/index.html you can find art of assembly language online books, good place to learn assembly

Golden ratio is (1 + sqrt(5) ) / 2 not 1.6 / 1

Cool, didn't know of ccan.

Site which collects C libraries and snippets would be quite cool and useful. It's pretty hard to find C libraries by googling.

Well it really depends who are in these exclusive communities and how active they are in the community.