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salahxanaduon Ask HN: I was hired and unhired in 2 weeks, for no reason

F them. Those guys are jerks. Make sure you get your pay plus your vacation pay plus a severance.

salahxanaduon Ask HN: Did you go to a 3 month coding school? Did it work?

I'm going to buck the trend and say that going to a 2 or 4 year college gives you a lot more than just the skills to program. It gives you social connections. It teaches you to do things you don't want to do (electives at times). It gives a deeper knowledge of your field. It exposes you to seasoned experts (professors). It also helps you branch out and learn things you never thought that you'd have interest in. Oh and intramurals and relationships and friendships and shared events and more.

If you want to just work for the rest of your life, by all means, learn to program on specific thing and get a job to pay for something or live in the cube for the rest of your life.

I love programming and I love learning new things, but I value a lot more too.

salahxanaduon Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

Android Wear stuff. I just got my graphics. Now I just need to figure out how to get it on the store.

salahxanaduon Ask HN: Ideas for a small passive income site

That's so bold! You're a good guy.

salahxanaduon Ask HN: Life advice for 25yo Web Dev, single, no debt, $30k/£20k savings

Take a trip for a month, you've earned it. Go somewhere cheap and interesting.

salahxanaduon The Original Swift Programming Language – Tutorial

Wow, I guess Java isn't the most verbose and ugly language.

RIP

salahxanaduon Ask HN: As an experienced dev, how do you learn a language/framework quickly?

It's prior knowledge and then doing small projects or demos that enable you to learn the things you don't know. Take you time. Going from a desktop or web programming area to mobile is a bigger leap than you think. Especially because it sounds like it will involve learning the elegant and interesting objective-c.

For mobile programming I recommend watching the Google I/O and WWDC videos. They are verbose but it is the real deal.

Otherwise I like to do small tech demos or do tutorials from books.

Learn the IDEs better right away too. option-click stuff in Xcode and learn whatever Android Studio is supposed to do(I kid).

salahxanaduon Ask HN: My boss lowered my salary to make me more motivated

40 hours max should be in all caps.

salahxanaduon Ask HN: Is $100k for 50% just a terrible idea?

How much money is your startup making right now?

salahxanaduon Ask HN: Appropriate toy for a 1-year old girl that may lead to programming

Bilibo chair. There's no replacement for imagination. Wait until she's 6 and then go after the programming angle.

salahxanaduon Dogewallet - The Online Dogecoin Wallet

I can't see what the exchange rate is or whether you can buy dogecoin here. Am I missing something?

salahxanaduon Ask HN: Just got sued by patent troll – what should I do?

Sell it to them for a million dollars then.

salahxanaduon Ask HN: Work samples from recruiter's candidates

No. Recruiters seem to try to fit any candidate into roles they are not appropriate for.

If it was a programming challenge I'd rather be approached by the company doing the hiring.

salahxanaduon Apple Dev Center outage

Argh! I'm in the same boat. I'm 2 days from expiration and I have the activation code. I just couldn't do it at work and forgot to update my home computer Xcode the one evening that I had a chance before this outage.

salahxanaduon Ask HN: Never worked in a startup before, not sure if this is normal

This guy needs to stay late and do his own job. Any company can claim they are a startup and squeeze their employees for all of their time, but that does not make it worthwhile.

I, personally, refuse to work extra hours. I've burnt too many years with too little pay to do it ever again. If I cannot do it in the time allotted. I will get a good night's sleep and go at it hard the next day.

salahxanaduon Ask HN: Are my options worthless now?

They were never worth anything.

salahxanaduon Ask HN: How often do salary expectations not match up?

I would say in any other medium-sized US city entry-level would be 40-50K for a developer.

salahxanaduon OAuth.io - OAuth that just works.

Yes, it really is not. OAuth on mobile is frustrating experience of matching up responses and posts and figuring out which of the 5-10 variables and secrets or keys or tokens to give.

salahxanaduon Where to find friends that are programmers

I've met them at programmer meetups for certain technologies, conferences, local user-groups and startup weekends/gamejams.

salahxanaduon Ask HN: How do you have time for dates and gym when working for a startup?

Life-work balance. You'll burn yourself out doing 12 hour days. It takes quite a while to recoup once you get to the point where you're staring past people. Perhaps you need a better balance. Set boundaries. You may actually get more done during the workday because you're giving your mind time to think when doing other very beneficial things.

salahxanaduon Ask HN: Any game programmers out there who learned to code after age 25?

I've a few over 30 and I learn new things every year. I think it is a misnomer to think that you can only learn new things when you are young. Sure, it might be easier at a time, but I have a more broad base of knowledge and when I look upon new apis and sdks I have a better understanding right off the bat.

salahxanaduon NeXT Computer

I really think it was the NeXT engineer's tech demos showing that they could run Openstep on different processors and also that they could complete the 'Blue Box' in time.

salahxanaduon Jony Ive is Not a Graphic Designer

"Intents" remind me of OpenDoc. Are we going back there?

salahxanaduon Ask HN: Why people pay $1500 or more to attend WWDC

Yes, but they are still important. I eagerly await the releases of the wwdc videos. This year they're going to release them asap.

I'm so glad the years of bidding on wwdc dvds on ebay is behind us.

salahxanaduon Tech Companies That Only Hire Men

I sincerely doubt anyone would ever have any ulterior motives like that. Is the whole world out to get you?

salahxanaduon Tech Companies That Only Hire Men

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun#Universa...

In most cases for jobs 'they' could be appropriately used.

Also for the record I don't really care. I've seen good and bad women and men programmers. Getting huffy about pronouns just strikes me as someone that is a bit too emotional. Huh, strike a chord? (j/k)

salahxanaduon Tech Companies That Only Hire Men

This is dumb. It's merely pointing out pronouns. Should it be he/she everywhere or it? Gender neutral is often 'he'. Should we now say that 'all men are created equal'? Is it splitting hairs yet? Nobody is telling women not to get into tech things. I don't know whether it is general interest or what, but it should not engender such divisive hate.

I think we need more positive role models. Less of this pointless vitriol.

salahxanaduon Ask HN: Best Business Book For a 13-year-old Girl?

A great thing would be an experience where she meets a business woman that shares her interest. Shadowing a professional would be more influential than a book.

Does she know what she wants to do? Perhaps she can visit businesses and meet real professional women that are in those jobs. It might be inspiring or it might make her rethink what she wants to do/learn.

salahxanaduon New GitHub Logo

Penta-cat, they must mean.

salahxanaduon Ask HN: Is GNUstep dead?

I think the potential is huge but as of yet unrealized.

Gnustep seems to want to make Openstep again with 'Project Builder' and 'Interface Builder' but do they have tools to cross-compile for multiple platforms? I don't think so. That would break it open, compile fat binaries for any linux, windows, mac or (linux-based) phone.

Xcode is very nice IDE and I use it daily. Having .xcodeproj support in GnuStep so you can just port over an existing os x/iOS app would be key.