genbattle

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by genbattle 16y ago
I sort of feel mixed on this one. I myself took a very low starting wage because the company I work at does gaming technology, and it's in a fairly small town, so my costs are very low. This wouldn't be a problem except that the technology
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by genbattle 16y ago
In the end a University degree is just a piece of paper. What matters is the quality of the knowledge and mentoring you receive from your lecturers and from the university as a whole. I think this situation is a result of the financial cras
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by genbattle 16y ago
I'm on the younger end of the age-scale (23), and i would have to agree that less people are learning C as a matter of course these days. Over the whole programmer population the percentage would be very low, but the hacker population is al
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by genbattle 16y ago
Gah, why do i never seem to hear about these events... -1 for living in Palmerston North i guess. Is there some website or newsletter where these events get published and promoted? Hopefully the childish behavior on both sides doesn't refle
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by genbattle 16y ago
No, explicitly banning whole websites seems like a brute-force way of preventing bad content from getting submitted/upvoted on hacker news. I think it's better to modify the mechanics of the community so that inappropriate articles get filt
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by genbattle 16y ago
I feel your pain in just about every respect. Having personal projects can help. From what others have said having a solid non-programming hobby and getting back some balance is a key to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Interesting and some
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by genbattle 16y ago
Dell Stage: http://www.dell.com/us/p/stage/pd It's very much a consumer-facing product, built on technology somewhere between a game engine and Flash. edit: Also working on learning Google Go and OpenCL in my spare time, as well as recove
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by genbattle 16y ago
This is really true, and something we are experiencing now in the company I am working for. Traditionally we've been a company with ~12 employees, small project teams of 1-4 people. Now the company has expanded to over 40 employees over two