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mycodebreakson The myth of the overnight success

Dropbox was also not the first company that Drew started.

We need such innovation (at any level - design, engineering, technology) Keep it up guys!

mycodebreakson Naveen is Leaving Foursquare

I think these location based applications are like a wave.. People ride it,enjoy it and then get onto another wave... https://twitter.com/#!/vkhosla/status/59390622209015808

mycodebreakson DHH tweets about recruiter contacting for RoR dev position

LOL... Sr. RoR developer...

mycodebreakson Give it five minutes

No, you're not the only one, I feel the same way.

mycodebreakson YouPorn passwords available for download, thousands of users exposed

How do passwords get leaked? Does it mean they were stored in plain text?

mycodebreakson Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool

Brave article by Dan. Please keep them coming.

mycodebreakson Kids are the future; teach them how to code

I have started feeling indifferent to this topic.

How can you teach a seven year old to program? Kids of that age are hardly learning to add, subtract, multiply and divide numbers. How difficult would it be for a kid to grasp concept of function - in context of both math and programming.

Teaching kids how to program is not as easy and logical as it sounds. My opinion is to let a kid grasp and understand the basics - which are math, science and logic at an abstract level. Such a rush to throw everything at a kid is overkill IMHO.

mycodebreakson Mind Your Manners: Eat With Your Hands

eating with hands is not bad, people of every race in my office eat pizza with their hands.

Depends on the food that you are eating.

mycodebreakson When She Codes, The Revolution’s Coming

Honestly, I really do not understand why women being programmers is such a hyped concept. I have seen many women as doctors, lawyers and in science. Women might be more interested in other professions, which I think is the only reason that keeps women from working as programmers or engineers.

Definitely, the problem, if it is a problem, is due to choice women make, not due to their abilities.

mycodebreakson Could Coding Become the Next Mass Profession?

This is a tough job, most people don't want it.

People like to be lawyers and study business more instead of becoming programmers.

mycodebreakson John Resig: JavaScript as a First Language

Well, I would like to teach kids assembly language first. That's how my generation did it. Second language should be C. That's how you know how your program actually runs on a computer. You know what memory is, and how it is used.

mycodebreakson 37signals doesn’t like you sorting stuff. Are you just remaking a spreadsheet?

is this what's called minimalist design?

mycodebreakson A human review of the Kindle Fire

Is this human review? Looks like rant from apple lover.

mycodebreakson 3.5 Inches

This is the dumbest analysis about design.