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C# pays my bills at the moment. There's never been a lot of love for Microsoft on HN, but politics aside, C# is an excellent language in my opinion and where I am (UK), there are lots of C# and Java jobs. They tend to be more "corporatey" than the Ruby/Python cohort.

Because Apple have purposefully made it more difficult than it should be for developers to find and disable the vulnerable versions.....and thus far, not released a patch.

I've got an old Samsung 550 chromebook that I've done the same to. It's a highly under-rated dev machine in my opinion. I installed Gallium on mine.

I find it interesting that Coffee shops have such a long standing history in London given that tea is basically the national drink.

I had a similar question - One of the things I appreciate about Atom and Sublime is the ability to add folders to current "project" even if they are at different hierarchical levels of the folder structure. Other than that VSCode was pretty cool.

Autocomplete on steroids. This looks very cool and the demo vid was very well done!

I think a lot depends on team culture and perhaps that's where these kinds of anecdotes fall down - without the context of the team and personalities behind them, they are just snippets with three sides to every story.

> I think we're doing a huge disservice by promoting this idea that programming is some super elusive thing

very true! The heart of the article is really just pointing out that like anything, learning computer science is about admitting what you don't know, asking questions and perseverance.

I guess it's because I'm not female that the "female in tech" portion of the article didn't really stand out against the greater take away (for me anyway) of what it takes to actually learn. On the role model front though, I do think that they can play an important part in encouraging someone into learning a subject where they haven't had any encouragement/support from family or school.

"Two pairs of black shirts. Two pairs of black pants. One pair of combat boots. Two pairs of black socks. One black jacket. $300 personal burial money."

or C developers have considered things that should not happen more than the next nearest language.

Pretty much this - it's going to make my life as a developer easier. Having Linux right there when I'm working on an Microsoft platform will remove a clunk in my user experience of having a VM open all the time for when I want to drop into Linux.

I'm running Gallium an a Samsung Series 5 chromebook. It's a real pleasure to be honest. I had crouton running before, but chrome os updates often trashed the install and it was a pain to get running again.

Only thing I would like really is better battery life - I get somewhere in the region of 3 hours, but my chromebook is pretty old so...

This is a great story and kudos - it looks like an awesome piece of work for a weekend project.

As a counterpoint, I did something similar (replicated a barebones version of a tool that a company I wanted to work for had) and sent it off and didn't even receive a courtesy "thanks but no thanks" email. Them's the breaks I guess.

Well, the blog's author is a Javascript developer :)

What I find interesting is that so many tech companies (maybe not just tech) seem to approach employing people from a negative standpoint. Everything is aimed at "weeding people out"...it's almost like the default assumption is that candidates won't be suitable for a position.

Came here to say basically this. Would have been nice if they had the courtesy to disable their own javascript on an article about how disabling javascript gives a better user experience......

Interesting that the 10clouds site itself uses bootstrap....

Jekyll and Wordpress.

I've been using a Samsung Series 5 XE55 for quite a while - about 2 years now.

I've installed crouton and the extension that lets it run in a browser tab. It works pretty well for development tasks. I also use a couple of cloud dev environments (nitrous.io and codeanywhere) and of course just straight up ssh into a server if I feel like it.

I tend to work in any of ruby, python, c#, go, php, general front end javascript, html, css and lots of database stuff - so essentially various forms of web dev. I've never really had any trouble getting things up and running in croutaon - even managed to get mono and c# working and the latest visual studio code on it.

Which of the three options I use (crouton, cloud, ssh) is really down to whim. I'm comfortable using different dev environments, which I think helps - I'm not fanatical about any particular editor or tool chain - so I'm happy in vim, sublime text, visual studio, online editors etc and climb in and out of languages as I need to. The key for me is to have a disciplined git workflow with my repositories stashed nicely online. The only thing I miss now and then, is some easy image optimisation in the chromeos itself.

I kind of love the fact that the chromebook has great battery life, a pretty comfortable keyboard and that it's basically disposable (I got a factory second for less than £100). It's also pretty sturdy. I've travelled a fair bit with it, dropped it and banged it around, it's been splashed, had coffee poured on it, children's grubby fingers poking the screen - I just don't care...I wipe it down and carry on. It's kind of nice to not be precious about my equipment and the discipline a small hard drive forces on me means everything is properly stashed and backed up so if the machine dies...well c'est la vie.

For Doctor Who fans, there's always this one from the BBC:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/games/doctor-who-game

Maybe literate programming (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming) goes some way towards that? Or at least could be extended to do that?

if you want to capture the English market, please do some copy editing on your site.

"The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_creed#Motto)

I say let him have his games - it's not for us to shit on other people's dreams.

take a simple piece of functionality, decide what you expect it to do, and write a test to check that it does it. It isn't complex - start with the simplest thing that works - minitest is integrated into Ruby, so use that. Write a single test to test a method on one of your models. Build it up from there.

Tum te tum..."answer a question to read the rest of this article".....pants to that.

I use one and find it pretty good. I go between crouton with xfce for development using vim or using nitrous.io in the browser. I mostly use the setup for angular or python coding.

I'm pretty happy with nitrous, I do kind of find the context switching a bit strange in that I can have browser tabs open and tabs in nitrous open - ctrl-tab obvious changes the browser tab, but my brain, when I'm editing code in a tabbed environment, still sometimes expects the code editor to switch tabs. Still, I have to say I ran an experiment on nitrous and if Vim is more your thing, you can actually run a shell inside the browser and fire up vim.

I very much expect this is the exception to the rule.

Thanks - did not notice that! awesome!

I'm pretty sure this tactic would cross a line for me personally. Different story if you actually started out with even just 1 video, but to base a sale on a lie of content not yet created is a bit dubious.

I wonder if you looked in to your legal obligations at all? I know in the UK a company has a duty to trade fairly and not mislead consumers....I'm not sure to what extent you fall foul of the law if you do something like this?

Great resource thanks! I love the Tibetan chanting. Would love something that subtley changes the sliders over time.